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FLASH-LIGHT VIBRATIONS 
Color is the master-key which unlocks the university of Nature. 

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"Intelligence'' and "Jight'' are the self and same things and in this book are used 
interchangeably and equally. 

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Vibrations of Light and Color move in the Mineral, ascend in the Vegetable, awaken 
in the Animal and think in the Human. 



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Ideas, or collections and re-collections of harmonious vibrations, produce happiness 
and self control, thus producing a contented soul and peace of mind. 



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Play on your natural key note and vibrate the color tones of harmony. Thus be in 
tune with and control of your emotional, musical and perceptible color. 



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MORAL VIBRATIONS 



We can never vibrate high and strong. 
If we don't admit when we are wrong. 



First to my dear sisters 

Emily and Edith 
who have been a source 
of encouragement and inspiration, 
and next to my pupils, 
the author gratefully dedicates 
this book of Essays, Lessons and 
Flashlights 



Copyrighted 1921 
By Ernest J. Stevens 
San Francisco^ California 

Set up and eleclrotyped 1920-21 

All rights reserved 



VIBRATIONS 

THEIR PRINCIPLES 



LIGHTandCOLORS 

THEIR USES 



ESSAYS, LESSONS, HEALTH HINTS 
AND FLASH-LIGHTS 

BY 

ERNEST jfSTEVENS, M. S., Ph. D. 

PRICE FIVE DOLLARS 

PUBLISHED AND ILLUSTRATED BY THE 

STEVENS LIGHT AND COLOR RESEARCH STUDIOS 

SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA 
1920-21 



TABLE OF CONTENTS I3f I ^ 



Dedication 

Illustration of Sun Bursting Through 

the Golden Gate 
Illustration of Lamp of Knowledge 
Table of Contents 
1921 Photo of Author 
Author's Foreword 
Introductory 
Publisher's Note 

CHAPTER I 

Science and Truth 

Light for the Coming or Forward- 

Looking Man 
Electro-Magnetic Vibrations 
Creative Energy, Light and Colors 
Physio-Mental Vibrations 
Physical Vibration 

CHAPTER II 

Manifestation of Radiant Energy 
Silent Vibrations 
Nature's Scale of Vibration 
Science, Light and the Bible 

CHAPTER III 

Light Is a Force and Vibration 
The Elementary Physics of Light 
Mouth and Throat Vibrations 
Reproductive Vibrations 
The Master Keys for Master Minds 



CHAPTER IV 

Spiritual Magnetic Waves 

Breathing Vibrations 

White Consciousness 

Friendly Shake Vibrations (A 
Poem) 

The Sun's Beauty Shop 

Mental and Moral Effects of Light 

Exercise— Bottled Sunshine— and 
Colors 

Our Solar System Chemist 

Healing by Vibration; or, The Law 
of Light and Color Therapeu- 
tics 

Twelve Health Vibration Rules 
CHAPTER V 

Color Psychology and Psycho- 
Therapy 

The Measure of Color in Health 
and Disease 

Colors and Morals 

Emotional Reminders 

Psychology of Color 

Color— Sources of Information 

Star Light and Colors 

Woman's Radiance 

CHAPTER VI 

Breathing Color Vibrations 
How Nature Colors the Cheeks 
Congestion Is the Only Disease 
Visibility of Seven Octaves 



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The Sours Vibration 

Colored Lights— A Means of Diag- 
nosis and Cure 

A Sunshine Soul for Human En- 
ergy and Color 

Color Sources (Special) 

CHAPTER VII 

The Author's Blue Light Experi- 
ments 

Electric Light, Heat and Color 

Foot Baths 
Red and Blue Colors 
Cold and Hot Vibrations 
Marvels of Physio-Psycho Chrom- 

opathy 
Blue to Violet and Green 
Color Affinities and Blending 
Triad of Color, Form and Sound 

CHAPTER VIII 

Color Symbolism, Thoughts, 
Emotions, Passions and Ef- 
fects 

Color Sources and Realms 

Sound and Color 

Pancoast's *'Blue and Red Lights" 

How to Arrange Colors in Elec- 
tric Light Cabinets 

The Science of Keeping Young 

To Be Sunful, Soulful, Songful (A 
Poem by E, J. S.) 

Radio -Vitant Applicators 

Our Light and Color Self 

Law of Color Correspondence 

The Light Bath Idea 

Necessity the Mother of Invention 

CHAPTER IX 

Electrons, Atoms and Motion 



Colors in the Human Atmosphere 
Sleep Inducing Vibrations 
Diagnosing and Healing by Sound, etc. 
Marvelous Color Experiments 
Light and Color Cures 

CHAPTER X 

Mental Color Treatment 
The Super- Woman of Pure Color 
The Super-Man (A Poem by Author) 
Light, Color and Air Therapeutics 
Unbottling Sunshine (A Poem by 

E. J. S.) 
The Odic Lights 
An Appreciation 

CHAPTER XI 



APPENDIX I-BURB ANK 

My June, 1921, Visit to Luther Burbank 
Color Thoughts and Forms 
Super- Affirmations 
Body Colors 

APPENDIX II.— ZONE THERAPY 

Zone Breathing Vibrations and a 

Course of Lessons 
Healing Vibrations 
Announcement 
Memoranda 
Index 



Fourth Dimension and Einstein's 

Theory of Relativity 
The Nourishing Sunshine 
Realization (A Poem by Author) 
Astral and Odic Forces 
Sleep and Rest 

Radium, the Great Radio-Active 
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AUTHOR'S FOREWORD 



The scientific and practical information conveyed in this and my second, book (now 
in preparation) is the result of experience^ experiments, study , observation and the treat- 
ment of hundreds of patrons and with a number of students in connection with the Stevens 
Light and Color Research Institute, in San Francisco. 

I feel under very special obligationsi to Wm. £. Poole, physician and surgeon, who 
for couple of years has been associated with me. Dr. Poole for many years has been a 
scientific researcher and practitioner in his profession. 

I feel very grateful to Ella R. Bell, D. C, who has managed the demonstration depart- 
ment with devotion and skill for three and a half years, and to valuable service rendered 
by Dr. Howard G. Ellis, director of the Electro-Hydro-Mechano Department in connection 
with our resident examining physician — Gudrun Friis Holm, D. 0., M. D. (See page 70.) 

I hereby render thanks to my friend and fellow physicist, Dr. Geo. Starr White, M. D., 
of Los Angeles, whose interviews at my exhibit at the 1915 Exposition and at my office 
in this city and several evenings at his residence in the South, were always inspirational. 

To Luther Burbank, the author owes a debt of gratitude for information received on 
his twO| visits, as described in the Appendix of this book. 

I sincerely appreciate all those, who in some degree, have come and tried the benefits 
of these marvelous yet simple and natural Light and Color applications^ including Fred 
Emerson Brooks, Henry Frank, George Wharton James and Major P. Kellogg, M. D. 

I should not overlook the fact that we have been honored by having in our courses 
for "Lesson Treatments" a number of professional people — editors, physicians, priests, 
poets, public lecturers of national fame, Christian Science and New Thought healers, etc. 
The popular and able writer, Pauline Jacobson, was one of the author's first students for 
a private reading in Human Analysis, resulrtng in her remaining in San Francisco, just pre- 
vious to writing her series' of articles in "The Evening Bulletin" on "The Inner Kingdom." 

I am grateful for data received from Prof. Milliken, of the Chicago North West Uni- 
versity, on electrons. 

I am under obligations to Dr. J. W. Starkey, a more recent member of our Institute 
staff, for her experiments with colored lights for irregularities of the feet ; also, a bouquet 
of kind thoughts for my capable and cheerfu' private secretary, and at least tiie passing 
good word for our sun-ray Battle, Creek Sanitarium graduate rurse and other skilled 
nurses, who assist in the Stevens Light and Color Research Institute. 

And, !;finally, my thanks to the university professors in Philadelphia who were my tu- 
tors, and who still encourage and give light to my path, 

Ernest J. Stevens, M. S. 



INTRODUCTORY 

How my mind has wandered around the world as I contemplated why there should be 
so many sad, sallow, severe and "sinful" faces, instead of sympathetic, strong, serene and 
sunshiny countenances with the natural, sweet disposition due to the souFs supply of true 
sentiment, which reflects the soul^s true colors. 

As I searched for knowledge, and researched for simple, scientific truths, I found that 
all manifestations and expressions depend upon understanding the laws of life, of love and 
of light. This marvelous trinity is known as truth, which governs alJ the realizations of 
life, here and hereafter. I had for years been influenced with the above-mentioned condi- 
tions, but as surely as I learned the laws or rules of Nature, I found myself coming out of 
these destructive negatives and was then able to control, and finally conquer, these depress- 
ing influences. After discovering my real self, it became easy to understand the creative 
laws of inventions and art, as well as to enjoy a greater degree of health and inspira- 
tion. For some years my cup of joy has been growing greater, and now I find it necessary 
to serve it out increasingly ; thus, in an humble way, I have endeavored to do ; and with a 
heartfelt response to my day-dreams coming into a higher realization, I now ask you, dear 
searcher for greater light and higher octaves of color, to enjoy with me a season of visits and 
chats. May our spirits unselfishly commune together as lovers of Nature. May we mutual* 
!y be supplied and rourished with the Godly ambrosia of life, and our thirst for sympathy 
be quenched by the Heavenly nectar of impersonal love. This is indeed the present truth 
for us from the One Great Mind. 

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PUBLISHER'S NOTE 

The days of miracles are here and the world is made better by a science that helps us 
to move out of the cave-man existence, and to encourage men and women to live, to keep 
young, strong, clean, happy, full of vim and success; in other words, to build a super race, 
instead of barely existing in the "old age, how OLD are YOU ?" negative, destructive exist- 
ence. We can, dear reader, with more light enjoy more life — "Life abundantly." The 
publisher following the marvelous example of the energetic and youth-renewing spirit of 
the author, has also proven this fact in a very marked degree,, to the surprise and joy of in- 
numerable friends. Therefore, I fully endorse the following pages from the standpoint 
of gratitude and encouragement and from the viewpoint of "Let your light so shine." 
Otherwise, we vibrate back to the cave existence, darkness and gloom. 



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LIGHT AND COLORS 



CHAPTER I 

SCIENCE AND TRUTH 

Universal science has no modification. It is simply the natural science or accumula- 
tion of data from every natural channel that establishes a universal science, and which 
cannot be divided or modified by a religious or sectarian name; however, there is a realm 
of truth in every division of knowledge. 

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Understanding the basic, urderlying forces and language of Nature, and being in 
tune with Nature's laws, we can be free from all the inharmonies of life. 

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LIGHT FOR THE COMING OR FORWARD-LOOKING MAN 

The Thinker is THE MAN; 

The Knower is THE SUPER-MAN. 

The Wise, Understanding Man is THE GOD-MAN. 

If right thinking and researching develops a real man, and if right knowledge ac- 
quired is power, then, in using the knowledge with wisdom, we are Godlike. To be Godly 
is to vibrate on a high plane, and this is represented by THE WHITE LIGHT of intelli- 
gence— a balance of the fine forces, i. e., FORM AND ORDER, SOUND AND MUSIC 
and LIGHT AND COLORS, and these vibrations complete a uniiversal triad. Thoughts 
are the result of feelings, and feelings are the result of internal and external vibrations 
conceived and perceived by the conscious mind. In the words of Tagore : 

We kindle the Lamp of Light with 
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VIBRATION 

Motion, emotion, commotion, rotation, revolution, etc., are simply different aspects 
of vibration and these are represented according to their rate, based on their speed of mo- 
tion which is distinguished like the different tones on the piano — by their coloring. 

Then there is the red vibrations (and low yellow) of more or less discord. These are 
manifested in the mental or intellectic ; while the blue to violet and white of harmony mani- 
fest always in the spiritual sphere, which represents the source of intelligence. 

Life is a continual process of collecting, recollecting and becoming, rating and vibrat- 
ing. Human life becomes richer, purer and greater according to the use of its unlimited 
sources. Do not, dear reader, fall behind the ideal levels of thought, and above all beware 
of taking a back seat in the temple of knowledge, or of becoming static, sta!e or staid. 

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CREATIVE ENERGY, LIGHT AND COLORS 

There are many elemental substances, but only one primary substance — the electron, 
the smallest known particle of the atom. These are positive and negative and are energy 
producers. They are divided into seven classes and operate in octaves. These are full 
of energy that produces vibrations, which in turn produce form, sound and color.. 

One scientist declares the electron, infinitely small atom, is one trillionth of a millimeter 

long. 

There's nothing very new about this theory that the air we breathe and our body itself 
is built of inconceivably small particles. 

Lucretius, born in 95, B. C, wrote, "On the Nature of Things." 

"We perceive the different smells of things, yet never see the smells coming to our nos- 
trils; nor do we behold heat nor can we observe cold with eyes, nor are we used to seeing 
voices. Yet all these things must have a bodily nature, since they are able to move the 
senses, for nothing but body can touch and be touched . . . Nature, therefore, works 
by unseen bodies." 

Then he proceeds to "prove" that all things, no matter how solid, have small pores in 
them through which the "powder of things" can move. 

Energy is known as active, kinetic, and is in motion and obeys vibrating laws of the 
octaves with an outer sense used to reach about seven octaves, and others can be reached 
by some persons. Through the medium of the brain we could reach forty octaves, beyond 
these are myriads of octaves, all of which operate on finer ethers and through the fourth 
dimension. 



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VIBRATIONS 

There are three great divisions) or classes of vibrations— to correspond with the three 
great reeilms — the physical, the mental and the spiritual — like as in the solar spectrum of 
three primary colors there are subdivisions ; and as in the colors we have the two complete 
classifications of white and black. We also have two general classifications of conscious 
and unconscious vibrations, with all their respective colorings, hues, shades and tints. 
Magnetic waves come through the unconscious, while the electric current comes directly 
through the conscious. The former flows or spreads in waves, and soothes, heals, inspires 
and constructs, while the latter comes and goes in straight or zigzag lines and cuts, hurts, 
burns and destroys. Both forces are generated from the electron and penetrates the atomic 
molecular and cellular realms and vitally affect the metaboHsm of all organized matter, or 
the mists and gases that compose these lower grade, concrete things termed material or 
the destroyer; the magnetic unites and calms, the electric separates and disturbs. 

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Every line of thought is made up of vibration. Mathematics itself is simply a series 
of lines, and by the thought related and directly connected by a formulated logic. Every 
avenue of knowledge vibrate with electronic energy. 

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PHYSICAL VIBRATION 

Matter in its last analysis does not exist, and all life is energy A^brating, being repre- 
sented by motion, force. Light and Color, etc. The physical plane and emotion, desire, 
will, etc., are on the mental and esoterk sides of human nature. Condensed energy moves 
in rotation, attracting to itself vibrations, composed of electrons, eons, atoms and molecules. 
What we call matter is simply an effect produced by low and slow vibrations ar.d colors 
on our physical senses. The vibrations in turn are formed by electrons, producing a con- 
tinued manifestation of energy that corresponds with the lower or physio-mental plane. 
Matter is therefore the low rate vibrations, producing an effect on our senses similar, to 
the vibrations on the moving picture films. Thought itself is made up of a continuity of 
sense vibrations. The same is true of ideas, and words, and actions, which are all simply 
divisions and m8«mfestations of invisible vibrations. These create and form great organ- 
izations by collecting and re-collecting the forces of nature. Thus Nature's mysterbus 
artist plays on the thought system of the nerves' centers which are produced by the soul of 
man. These, according to their quality — ^i. e., their light and colors — form and construct 
by collecting and re-collecting the thought forces of nature, are the visible things 
around us. 



CHAPTER II 



LIGHT A MANIFESTATION OF RADIANT ENERGY 

Professor J. J. Thomas of Cambridge, England, says : "Whenever an electron is sud- 
denly started or stopped or made to turn a corner, it disturbs the ether through which it has 
been quietly moving and excites a ripple in: it. These ethereal ripples constitute radiation, 
the best known variety of them we call light. With this we have been familiar for a long 
time because of our happening to possess eye instruments for the ready application of 
ethereal ripples. We used not to know the reason, however, for the production of light, but 
we now know that it is due to sudden change of motion, either in speed, or in direction, of 
an electron, and probably to no other cause." 

HOW LIGHT IS PRODUCED 

''It may be shown by spectroscopic analysis that each of the natural elements trans- 
mits to the ether a definite color wave. This is due to the definite rate of electronic atomic 
vibration of each element which is invariable. Thus the light spectrum of carbon shows 
that this element always transmits to the other a definite rate of vibration, or light wave of a 
definite color, which we have named red. In other words the spectroscope proves that the 
rate of electronic atomic vibration of carbon is the same as the rate of ethereal vibration of 
red light. By the same method we may show that the electronic atomic vibration of sodium 
corresponds in rate with that of yellow light ; and oxygen with that of violet light. In fact, 
the spectroscope shows that each element has a certain rate of atomic vibration which cor- 
responds with the rate of ethereal vibration of a light wave of a definite color; and it also 
shows that the rates of atomic vibration of the difFereirt elements are as widely varied as the 
rates of ethereal vibration of the different colors of light. This is likewise shown to be true 
when the elements are in chemical combination as well as with inorganic matter. Hence, 
we find that the natural elemer.ts, or atomic grou]?s, which make up the cells of living organ- 
isms have the same ratio of vibrations as the different light waves. 

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Light cannot lie, is never in error, and is inflexible as the laws of gravitation and of 
truth itself. 



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SCIENCE, LIGHT AND THE BIBLE 

Clifton Harby Levy writes: "What bearing, if any, upon the interpretations of the 
Holy Scriptures have' the newest stupendous discoveries of Professor Michelson and other 
scientists? 

"The fastest motion known to the instruments of modern science is the swiftness of a 
riay of light or the electric current — both travel at the rate of 186,000 miles a second. The 
circumference of the earth is about 24,000 miles. A flash of light or an electric spark 
would travel around the earth in about one-eighth of a second— it would encircle the 
earth before yoii could tutn around to nieet it. 

"The most distant stars yet measured are so far away that it would take a beam of 
light or an electric spark over 200,000 years to traveF front the earth to them. If Heaven 
is out beyond the stars, then it would take over 200,000 years for a soul to travel from 
this earth to itsi future home if it sped on its tremendous journey year after year with the 
swiftness of light. 

"Indeed, according to this reasoning, the soul of the thief on the cross who began his 
journey two thousand years ago would have really scarcely begun this almost inconceiv- 
able journey of 200,000 years. 

"Does the newest and unquestioned discoveries of the astronomers and physicists 
prove that Heaven, therefore, be beyond the starry firmament? Not necessarily. 

"With all the knowledge with which science has enriched us — ^yes, how very little it 
all sums up in comparison with the vastness of what we do not know and cannot under- 
stand! 

"Not until the microscope was invented, a comparatively recent instrument, did we 
know there were forms of life so minute that countless billions of these creatures could be 
held alive on the point of a knife blade. Even within the memory of this generation came 
the astounding discovery of the X-ray, which has enabled us to photograph and see things 
hidden from view by walls of wood and masonry and flesh. 

"These are some of the creditable achievements of science. But the beginning of 
time, the beginning of the world, of the secrets of life and death — science is as ignorant as 
an infant. Around us are a multitude of vital phenomena which we are at present too 
blind to, see. It is as if a blindfolded person were led into the silence of a great motion 
picture theatre. Not until the bandage was taken from his eyes would he suspect that be- 
fore him were thouseinds of living, breathing, thinking human beings^, while silently on the 
" screen a drama was being enacted. 

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much more extraordinary than the things science has so far been able to see and under- 
stand. Is it possible that! while light travels nearly 200,000 miles a second, yet there may 
be motion which is what might be called instantaneous — that the human soul might encom- 
pass the distance to the most distant stars and beyond in an instant 

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LET THERE BE LIGHT 

Light. Beyond the violet ray is the ultra-violet; above that is the X-ray. Electrons, 
if charged 600 to 700 watts, travels three and a half times around the world in a second. 

In the human body there are some electrons that could travel around the world in 
from, ten to twenty seconds. 

Colors are seen with the X-ray that are invisible to the naked eye. In a recently in- 
vented X-ray cabinet, the author enjoyed the experience of not only seeing these higher 
octave colors and hues, but of witnessing the dense, lower-rate physical bodies of various 
sized persons, including himself, fade away. "The mists of matter,'' as seen through the 
eyes of the higher lights, are filled and nothing but an outline of the human form remained. 
We are surely on the border land of realizing many wonderful discoveries in the just-be- 
yond realm. There will be additional experiments on the X-ray related in Vol. II. 

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SILENT VIBRATIONS 

Silent' vibrations are the most potent and far reaching, as well as being the quickest 
in penetrating power. In the silence we are able to concentrate and thus beget penetra- 
tion, and enjoy more of life's forces which beget light. And more light means more love; 
more love means more service, joy and peace. Thus the author's formulae: 

Silence begets Concentration. 

Concentration begets Penetration. 

Penetration begets Life-Power. 

Life-Power begets Light. 

Light begets Love. 

Love begets Service. 

Service begets Joy. 

Joy begets Peace 

Peace means SWEET SILENT SUCCESS. 

TRY and YOU CAN. 

Do not try and YOU cannot. 



CHAPTER III 



LIGHT IS A FORCE AND VIBRATION 

Light is a material fluid, emanating' from a luminous body, or it is by undulations. 
These are the two great light theories. 

White is the harmonizing of all the vibrations. True yellow is the Middle C of our 
human piano, which should be attuned and kept clean ; Blue to Violet are the great upper 
Triad of Light and are the great factors of the love trinity — Love, Light, Life. This is the 
Universal Triad. 

The power of all substances may be known by their colors. 

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THE ELEMENTARY PHYSICS OF LIGHT 

Nature has but few laws and they are universal in their application. 

Vibration is the primal law of nature, nothing being exempt from it. 

In Cleaves' "Light Energy" is found the following : "Throughout space all matter is 
vibrating from the lowest musical note to the highest pitch of the chemical rays. The vari- 
ous manifestations of energy known as sound, heat, light, electricity and chemical action, 
are all vibrations of this universal, homogeneous, incomprehensible body. 

"These manifestations are recognized as such according as they are perceived by the 
different nerves, for the mind of man translates the impressions of the world into facts of 
consciousness and thought by means of the nerves of the body. All these varying rates of 
vibration, differing as they do only in direction, rate and frequency, are interpreted accord- 
ing to the different nerves or group of nerves physically attuned to them, or organized to 
select and respond to especial manifestations of vibratory activity. 

WHAT COLOR IS 

"All colors are in the light, and they manifest themselves as one oe^ another 
according to the object upon which they fall. To perceive color it is essential that a certain 
amount of light faU upon the retina of the eyes." 

Color, wherever manifest, is simply vibration, causing waves in ether. These vibra- 
tions may com© directly from any one of the natural elements or atomic groups as shown 
by spectral analysis; they may be given out by the atomic cell vibration of plants or flowers 



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caused by the presence of one or more of these natural elements in the cells; or they may 
come from sunlight^ by the segregation of the various light waves known as the cardinal 
colors, which are) different and definite rates of vibration; thus causing each and every 
color or combination of colors from whatever source they may emanate. 

"At the lowest degree of brightness, blue gives a color sensation with an amount of 
light sixteen times less than required for red. Light of different periods of vibration or fre- 
quency applied to the eye excites different sensations of coior, the amplitude of the vibra- 
tion, height of the wave or distance of the swing of the oscillating^ corpuscles from the 
imaginary line called the ray, determine the intensity of the impression of light just as the 
loudness of a note depends upon the amplitude of the vibrations of the sounding body. 
When all the frequencies (or vibrations) fall simultaneously on the retina, the sensation of 
white is experienced." 

It seems incredible that one could write the above without taking the next step and 
recognizing the ur^versality of the law of vibration and its logical sequence, the law of 
atomic cell vibration. 

NATURE'S SCALE OF VIBRATION 

Nature's scale of vibration is very wide in its extent. It commences with sound, then 
merges into thermal heat waves, and these vibrations climb the vibratory scale as the tem- 
perature increases, and merge into the vibrations of the radiant heat waves in the infra-red 
which reach up to the visible red of the light spectrum. 

The vibration of the infra-red, according to the Polytechnic School of Paris, are 

Visible red „ 15 trillions 

Orange 20 trillions 

Yellow „ 28 triHions 

Green 35 trillions 

Blue „ - 50 trillions 

Indigo 60 trillions 

while the visible violet is spaced at 75,000,000,000,C00 per second." Cleaves, in "Light 
Energy," says: "The sensation of color, therefore, depends on the number of vibratioiis 
of light ether, just as the pitch of a note depends on the number of vibrations of the sound- 
ing body. The number of Vibrations for each color is constant. 

These seven different rates of vibration which we know as co'ors make up the visible 
light spectrum. Beyond these are a series of vibrations ki!own as the ultra-violet. These 
extend up to those vibrations designated as radio-activity, of which radium and the 
x-rays are the best known examples. This ends both the Sight spectrum and nature's vibra- 
tory scale as far as present knowledge goes. 



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MOUTH AND THROAT VIBRATIONS 

Although the positive actions of mastication and deglutition are important^ we should 
never overlook the fact that the alternating functions of smiling and relaxing are invaluable 
to health . Begin the day with a laugh, end the day with a yawn and then relax and sleep. 



REPRODUCTIVE VIBRATIONS 

The New Year of Spring time is symbolic of the divine spiritual spring time of the soul 
of man as well as the soul of all nature. 

Spring time represents a renewal of all audible and observable, as well as the wireless 
and invisible vibrations and colors of the evolving and revolving realms of the universe. 

Reproductive vibrations radiate with their respective octaves of colors and hues of 
every kingdom in our terrestial realm, as of all the spheres of the celestial universe. 

In VoL II, reproductive vibrations, with their colors and meanings, will be treated from 
different angles of the great perspective of Sex-Conceptioni and constructive unfoldment 
and development. 

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THE MASTER KEYS FOR MASTER MINDS 

Now let us think and understand what we mean by vibrations of Light and Colors^ 
and why knowledge and wisdom give us the black and white musical keys,) by which 
we can play on the human piano, and which, when understood, we can unlock the sealed 
doors of the Universe with the master keys. 

Light is represented by rates of vibrations ; these may be visible both to the physical 
and to the inner senses of the mental, astral and spiritual. If on the physical, we cognize 
with the outei^ senses of manifestation. If by the mental by the LIGHT OF REASON. 
The lower grade of thinking is represented by the lower colors of light. 

Then there is the astral or ethereal Lights and Colors — the occult Lights and Colors — 
and these are seen clearly by the clear sighted, those inheriting or developing an enlarged 
v'sion, sometimes termed the Perceptive or Third Eye Sight. The pure White Light 
is the balance of the spiritual colors, which are made manifest through the mental and 
physical senses — the mediums of expression for the spiritual magnetism of the God's 
image man. 

The subject is too great and the time too limited here to more than touch on some of 
the practical uses of Light and Color for regulating the health of human beings. 



CHAPTER IV 



SPIRITUAL MAGNETIC WAVES 

In our usual way of thinking, we refer to three classes of vibrations — the material, the 
mental and the spiritual — but in the realm of reality there is but one kind, and that is the 
spiritual, which is so marvelously manifested through the life-giving, constructive Magnetic 
waves. These invisible vibrations are of the highest rating and potency, are the most 
attractive, soothing, charming and strengthening. 

The Magnetic wave creates, while the electric current tears and cuts, bums and de- 
stroys, and yet in evolutionary progress the two are necessary. In metabolism these two 
forces are indispensable. One is the new house builder, the new body constructor, the new 
ideal creator. The other is the old house wrecker, the older body destructor, the older 
ideal displacer. 

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BREATHING VIBRATIONS 

The author's recent book on "Breath Power; or The Breath of Life," gives important 
data and lesson exercises on this very vital subject. 

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WHITE CONSCIOUSNESS 

The white light of being, of beings and of thought refers to the vibrations being under 
a perfectly even or true control. It is the Milky Way of our Universe, the "Light of 
Heaven," "the Great White Throne," the emblem of purity, angels, and the highest form of 
love as well; the day, truth and glory are represented by white. "Let your light so 
shine" refers to the white intelligence of a clean, pure, loving mind vibrating on the altar 
in the human temple, associated with the sii^ritual life generating from on high. 

It is the "at-one-ment" unity symbol. It is the middle key of the music of the spheres 
and the harmonizer of all inharmonies 

o 

Mathematics is formulated logic, and logic is formed by geometrical and algebraic 
thought vibrations of electrons. 



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FRIENDLY HAND-SHAKE VIBRATIONS 

(Words written impromptu by Dr. Harold Palmer, the psychometrist and lecturer, at 
a farewell luncheon and handed to the author to give to a mutual friend.) 

Hand clasp! 
Not a flabby, lappy, 
Sappy kind of thing 
Like dead fish slipping 
Through a ring; 
But a warm hand clasp, 
That lingers still 
And gives that joyful thrill 
Of soul-power true. 

Oh, noble girl. 
Such is the hand shake of you. 

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THE SUN'S BEAUTY SHOP 

SUNSHINE produces soujshine, and soulshine produces a sunny disposition, and a 
sunny disposition in turn produces a splendid personsdity, and a splendid personality pro- 
duces success, radiating sun-colors in health, happiness and a complexion as beautiful 
and as deep as the soul center. 

MENTAL AND MORAL EFFECTS OF LIGHT 

The good efl^ect of light upon the mental as well as on the morsel condition of the 
person, explains the reason why certain individuals desire certain colors, whether it be 
in choice of fruits and vegetables or their choice and mode of wearing apparel all of which 
come from the sunrays. One person longs for a particular color, while another is oppositely 
affected. It would require a lengthy article to cover the important uses of colors for the 
moods or modes and health of the human body and mind. 

The sun's light and color treatments may readily be applied daily or weekly, 
from the standpoint of ordinary cleanliness and natural stimulation and comfort, by the 
use of the Electric Light Bath Cabinets and the Radiant Applicators, which are modern, 
sdenttfic, always beneficial and may be attached to any electric light socket. 



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EXERCISE— BOTTLED SUNSHINE— AND COLORS 

Sunlight and exercise are Nature's great healers — and preventative of disease. Dead 
tissues, as well as poisonous secretions, are, with the help of the sun, thrown off; and 
new and healing tissues take up the work of re-energizing. Exercise and sunhght are 
both difficult to obtain in sufficient quantity, under our modern ^^civiHzed'' conditions, 
to secure the required elimination. The failure to perspire is one of the fundamental causes 
of diseases of ow^ modern life. 

To run our human automobile, and secure sufficient human energy, a proper appli- 
cation of sunlight is necessary. This radiant light shouM be applied, preferably to the 
uncovered skin. When we cannot, on account of our social training or climatic condi- 
tions, come in contact with the sun's direct rays, the bottled sunshine (the chemical 
analysis being the same), will prove quite as beneficial. Electric lamp bulbs are used. 
These permit the spectrum rays to penetrate, thus securing the therapeutic value of both 
the radiant light and the colors. 

We all know that sunlight is the greatest "germ-destroyer" and the greatest "puri- 
fier," as well as being the source of warmth and heading power. Sunlight not only opens 
the pores of the body in order to cleanse the blood and lighten the heart it pulses through, 
but stimulates and strengthens the mind and dissipates the depressing "blues" and "greys," 
thus giving way to wholesomeness and purity. 

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OUR SOLAR SYSTEM CHEMIST. 

Our sun, is a mighty chemist, producing seven great classes of life-giving rays for its 
sevenfold creation on our planet. In Vol. 1 the author is treating principally on that c!ass 
we term co!or and its seven divisions and their uses for the health and harmony of the 
Creative Sun, which in turn was created by the Sun of the Universe. 

In other words we have a celestial ^materia medic a for the use of our terrestrial sun- 
souls which become, when rightly suppUed with sun-food, sunny souls. The sunless por- 
tions of a planet are barren of any form of great afe, more life in the temperate zones and 
by far the greatest in size, variety, beauty and soul greatness. The greatest majority of 
famous men and women and the world's great Saviors, Masters, Christs and Prophets come 
from Southern cHmes; the same is true of the women termed "Southeri!( Beauties." The 
majority of the world's famous poets and songsters come from the southern countries and 
the lower temperate divisions of the earth. 

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of the land. The same is true of dispositions. Light, warmth of nature, is the secret of 
Southern hospitality and generosity of souL 

The Sun sets a perfect example of what we should, as little suns, accomplish; but 
this is aj mighty subject and shall only touch on a few of the sun's manifestations and 
expressions of life and love, and in succeeding volumes the student of the Solar Univers- 
ity School of Vibration may secure more truth, more knowledge, and more power and 
life. 

Light has indeed a flashlight consciousness, for it can travel around the earth in 
waves seven times a second. 

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HEALING BY VIBRATION; OR, THE LAW OF LIGHT AND COLOR THERAPEUTICS 
The law of electrons, atoms and elements is vibration. 

The law of Light and Colors, as well as of sound, scent and organs is vibrations. 
The law of life and love, emotions and passions and all things that are is vibration. 
The law of thought and word is vibration. 
In fact it is the law of the universe, both visible and invisible. 

The White Light of Intelligence and the white Light of the normal physio-mental man 
is the same. Light is light; all the seven colors balance evenly, and a normal person is 
keyed a middle C and in tune with Nature. 

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THE MEASURE OF COLOR IN HEALTH AND DISEASE. 

COLOR is the measure of ^'error'' (low rating) or dis-ease (lack of ease), the indi- 
cator of inharmony. Pure colors are the great healing agencies in Nature and the dispensers 
of force. White is the balancing mainspring with which all electronic force is represented. 
White is the equatorial balancer of all planets and organizations, from the minute world of 
the atom to the mightiest planet. 

Every disease has a corresponding vibration in color, and by mating with a comple- 
mentary higher rate color vibration, congestion is' relieved and eliminated and new cells 
gradually replace the "old" ones. By right thinking vibrations the higher, healthier forma- 
tion for molding new thought cells is continually in progress. Thus we consciously at first, 
then subconsciously, are the creators of a more perfect physical body or house for the 
inhabitance and enjoyment of our higher rating self — our spiritual soul. 



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TWELVE HEALTH VIBRATION RULES 

1. Avoid intemperances in everything — eating, drinking, working, playing and con- 
scious thinking. 

2. Avoid extreme combinations in food (for such errors produce inharmonious rela- 
tions), starches and acids, starches and sweets. 

3. Thoroughly masticate your food, especially the starchy and sweets. 

4. Eat only when hungry and comfortable. 

5. From several ounces to a pound of more or less soHd food is sufficient for anyone. 

6. Breathe naturally plenty of fresh air. If suffering with any respiratory trouble, 
even with the so-called ''Only a Cold^' (low rate vibration), breathe in Nature's pure, heal- 
ing balsamized air, and for constitutional treatment an electric light (^'Bottled Sunlight'') 
bath should be used. 

7. Enjoy the soul-inspiring and body-purifying sun rays, directly on the nude body 
when possible, and dress with light in weight and color garments, avoiding all that retards 
the light waves, which express "Service." 

8. Generously partake of fresh fruits and green vegetables. 

9. Keep all the passages of the human machine clear and clean, then the master 
organist. Nature, will take care of and play on the vital organs the music of health and 
harmony. 

10. Be ki^d to your kidneys and colon by exercising and perspiring, so that poisons 
(low rate vibrations) can escape through the myriads of eliminating channels of the body's 
surface — the pores of the skin. 

11. Sleep regardless of the number of hours, till you are naturally rested. 

12. Keep your activity optimistic, enjoying troubles and other problems^ which con- 
structively work for the upward path of progress. Keep the mind fresh and strong by 
ever cultivating inspirational thoughts to build new body cells which will respond to all the 
musical vibrations of youthfulness and joy on the human chords of harmony. 

o 

Mathematics, it is said, is dried music. Is not music liquid vibrations of a harmoni- 
ous nature? 



CHAPTER V 



COLOR PSYCHOLOGY AND PSYCHO-THERAPY. 

PERSONALITY, HEALTH AND COLOR. For real attractiveness and beauty, that 
which is deep and lasting, we must learn first to find our real, creative selves and thus know 
the secrets of the fountain of Youth, Health and Beauty, which is ever fresh and flowing 
onward, refreshing and renewing the beauty life stream of a charming personality. 

This knowledge is 'immeasurably superior to thei very best that is practiced in the 
fashionable and tempting repair shops known as "beauty parlors," etc. 

Where, excepting for the excellent hair and scalp work, the process of patching up 
with mixtures of paint and powder (and which example is also followed out by the indi- 
vidual at home or otherwise) containing her general "face make-up" the Vanity Box is 
notorious, and for why? To temporarily, yes, just from day to day or hour to hour patch 
up, to cover or gloss and powder over the low rating, low coloring, and even coarse grained 
accumulated imperfections of a skin which from ignorance (low and slow vibration)! has 
been neglected. 

Nature's Beauty Shop is within the mind and soul, and its signs are hung on the facial 
expressions and the quality is found on a natural colored complexion, which is an integral 
part of an attractive personaUty, vibrating with a healthy magnetism. 

In order to raise one's personality away above the ordinary person, that becomes more 
ordinary all the time — and to increase the power and influence of the individual — the time 
has arrived for all psychology students, instructors and healers to make a real study 
of the seven octaves of Light and Color, with their marvelous hues and varied tints and 
shades and forms, not overlooking the sound and music coloring. 

o 

The Astral Light keeps an unmu^iiated record of all that was, that is, or ever will be. 
The minutest acts of our lives are imprinted on it, and even our thoughts rest photographed 
on its eternal tablet. — "Isis Unveiled." 



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COLORS AND MORALS 

Municipal Judge Mahoney of Chicago made a statement on the 13th day of August, 
1913, which was immediately telegraphed all over America and soon appeared in a great 
many newspapers all over the country, to the effect that light colors tend toward godliness 
and dark colors to promote crime. That our readers everywhere may have this learned and 
kindly gentleman's exact words for reference in this volume, we quote the following, which 
appeared without change in more newspapers than we would try to count: 

'^Brightness leads to right thinking," said Judge Mahoney. ^'Darkness and uncleanliness 
lead to crooked thinking. This is an axiom as old as the Bible. I am glad to see so many 
white buildings going up in Chicago. They reflect the light and have a stronger psychologi- 
cal effect on the population than is usually imagined. The smoke nuisance which covers the 
building with dark soot is an aid to crime." 

In accordance with this belief. Judge Mahoney is having the South Clark Street Court, 
in which he presides, redecorated. The walls are being changed from a sombre hue to a 
light cream color. 

'This is an uplift court," he said, "and we must have the walls to correspond. It is 
enough to turn a good man into a criminal to have to sit day after day in a place like this. 
I was about ready to hold court in the street unless I could brighten things up a little." 

''White, cream, light yellow, and orange are the colors which arei the sanest. I might 
add, light green, for that is the predominating color in Nature. Black, brown and deep red 
are incentives to crime. A man in anger sees red. Despondency causes blueness of feeling. 
The same comparisons might be carried through all of the shades of the spectrum. I would 
make it a law to force all owners of buildings to paint them a light color." 

The author is a charter member of a literary society which, during the years 1919-20, 
held weekly meetings in the "Red Room" of a prominent hotel in San Francisco. Occa- 
sionally they met in the "Gold Room" in the same hoiel. The influence of the vibrations ot 
the irritating color of red, when meeting in the "Red Room," on the nerves and minds or 
those present was increasingly noticeable — especially on those who took active part. On 
the other hand it seemed a remarkable fact the "Gold Room" without exception produced a 
harmonizing atmosphere. The club has since moved to a new meeting place in conjunction 
with the Over Seas Club rooms, which, with its subdued color scheme and congenial atmos- 
phere, has not in several months' time, experienced the reddish outbursts of an over-stimu- 
lated condition of Ihe blood and brain of its members. 

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EMOTIONAL REMINDERS 

While a student at a theo!ogkal college and at the University of Pennsylvania, the 
author used to make the most important notes with a red pencil or red ink. This is true 
even with my Bible. Those were days of fear. I now prefer to make my notes with blue, 
or at least orange. Harry Gaze tells a story of two men, one of whom did not enjoy a 
high grade of love, who marked his Bible up with red, while the other man, with a true 
love nature, marked his Bible with blue. 

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PSYCHOLOGY OF COLOR 

Black is repressing, depressing and suppressing. Black represents the negative con- 
ditions of gloom, fear, error or dis-ease, ignorance, pessiniism and hopelessness. 

Black should not be worn as a funeral reminder of the orthodox sort The Christs 
and Saviors of the world did not, so far as we know, set the example of wearing black, 
but we have good reasons to believe that they, with the saints, were robed in white, as are 
the angels, according to the Scriptures. Referring to evil men, the Scriptures state that 
men love darkness better than light, because their deeds are evil 

Pure WHITE LIGHT is unity and harmony (love), which is thej nature of God. 
Love belongs to the true life of man and woman. It is in fact the very essence of a 
balance of life and keeps us from fearing, failing and falling. The White Light conscious- 
ness is the mighty searchlight to direct our souls into the Kingdom of Heaven within. 
The White Light is the inclusive, synthetic octave of things. 

No color, if color it is, is more demoralizing, or at least disheartening, than black, if it 
is not counteracted by '^a dash'' or ''flash" of a brightening color. It depresses the morale 
and spirits of those directly and indirectly influenced by wearing black, for it speaks of 
dark thoughts; i. e., negative, dead things, while white is affirmative, positive and spiritu- 
ally hopeful in its symbolic effect upon the senses, while purple and vio!et are soothing 
and reposeful, and gray is suggestive of the vision of a new hope and understanding dawn- 
inig upon the bereaved and disconsolate. 

''Among the Hindus, Mohammedans, Parsees and Turks, black is associated with 
everything material, negative^ dark, evil, hopeless, destructive and lifeless, that it seems 
to defeat the belief in the doctrine of the resurrection of a future life, which death fore- 
casts, and therefore these Oriental nations, with subtle understanding of the significance of 
color and effects and of its psychology on human lives, have ruled through centuries of reli- 
gious usage and customs othei* colors to be used for the mourning habit. It is a well 
known fact that our custom of wearing black for mourning was borrowed originally from 



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the Romans, as they, in their turn, received the custom from the Greeks. White was con- 
spicuously worn by the Roman women for one year. For instance, while the Turks and 
Moslems wear violet, the Chinese wear white, and these colors are to be preferred to 
black." 

WHITE is the Star of Hope and Assurance, which typifies and sees cleanliness, godIi> 
ness, glory, angels, and symbolizes the ''Great White Throne" of kingship and queenly 
glory and power. It is the Polar or polarization Star. White is the morning star of the 
awakening, and the evening star to guide our steps out of a dark cloud or a night of dark 
despair. 

Black is the language of ignorance, congestion and what is termed "wickedness." 

WHITE is the language of knowledge, expression and spirituality. 

The psychological effect of black, like the murky red and dusky brown, is repulsive 
to evolving, unfolding, developing students of the higher, brighter and purer life. 

Out of the dark-gray mists of the "dark ages" our eyes of perception discern the light 
of spiritual consciousness which will direct us to the higher andf higher and stiU higher 
realms of life and service. This spirit lamp is the Sun in man made in His likeness — "The 
Son (or Sun) of Man." 

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COLOR— SOURCES OF INFORMATION AND PERSONALITY 

When a painter, a designer or a sculptor desires to quicken his aspirations, or a Parisian 
dressmaker or London ladies' tailor craves new form and color schemes, they seek them from 
nature's color storehouse, which stimulates the imagination and enhances their taste in form, 
color and beauty. Because of their advancement in the knowledge of color and form, and 
of their musical environment, the civilization of the Circassians, Persians and Greeks were 
developed to a remarkable degree along the lines of symmetry, as well as their tastei in 
beautiful forms and thought chiseled faces and for attractive, delicately shaded color 
fabrics and flowing garments. 

Color, like Form, may become a negative or a positive force, an enemy or a friend to a 
personalty, an attractive or a distracting ray, a constructive or a destructive, a depressing 
and repressing or an expressing, developing influence in our personality, as well as an aid 
in increasing our individuality. Color may raise our consciousness and spirit or depress 
our mind and soul, and thus retard our progress and happiness. 

Colors have a tremendous influence on maintaiuizig health and harmony. The primary 
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par when our system lacks any of the spectrum rays. The student or reader will recall 
the fact that all first-class manikins and charts of the physical organs are painted with red, 
yellow and blue, thus representing the seven colors of sunlight within a healthy person. 
If these colors are deflected, the laws of nature demand a renewal of this life representing 
form of vital nourishment and tonic. If we lack the higher hue of red we are anemic, or 
have malaria or jaundice, and if too much of a murky or flow-rating (heavy) red, a physi- 
cal and mental "dis-ease," i. e., a congestion has "set in" and a series of mental inharmonies 
will, as usual, follow physical irregularities, which, after crossing the physio-mental bridge, 
cause irritation and feeling "up set", "unstrung", "stupid", "horrid", "dense", "cloudy", 
"badly"; or, if rating on a darker, slower vibration and coloring, one feels "bad", "nasty", 
and "mean" (all relative terms), a little fussy, or angry and hateful, and loss of mental 
control, etc. 

In the Far East and in Southern Europe, the child is experimented upon by the par- 
ents with colors to learn the corresponding adaptablje color hues most harmonious to the 
child's mental and physical requirements, and that which most calms and vitalizes, is 
wrapped about it and placed around the room. An irritated child is soothed into good tem- 
per by the presence of its dominant color. Mme. Courlandon of Paris, an authority on 
color harmony, writes as follows: 

"Colors are like persons. They put us at our best or they do not. They are hke food, 
they agree or disagree with us. RED is a disturbing hue; so is yellow in a lesser' degree. 
Explain it or not, the truth is these colors speak of conflict, of terror, of fire, of cataclysms. 
RED colors roar. BLUE (Sight blue) is restful. GREEN is a nearly universal friend. 
BLACK has the effect o^ weight. WHITE is a universal friend. PURPLES (to some) 
are color irritants and ORANGE partakes of this quality. PINK is friendly. I must tell 
you of an instance of the influence of color. I paid a visit (to a patient in a sanitarium in 
Kingston, New York, where they treat nervous and mental diseases. I was sent for to 
treat by color a patient who wore a light blue suit, a sapphire blue necktie. I induced him 
to let me substitute a bouquet of soft roses for his bureau and supply a pink cushion ; the 
effect was like magic." 

Applied psychologists and students of nature know that everyone has a favorite color, 
a color chord, as well as a color aura. We are affected vitally by color foods which nour- 
ish the body and mind. 

o 

The gentle flower of sweet sympathy and strong sunflower of optimism grow on the 
the banks of the river of life in our garden of Eden within the soul. 



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STAR LIGHT AND COLORS 

Star light, like our sun light, shows through the prism the different waves of colors. 
Some stars vibrate different colors and from different angles. The colors depend upon 
the intensity due to their temperature. 

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STARLIGHT COLORS 

The author has experimented from night to night with high grade imported prisms — • 
star light photographing, by means of these instruments, in the clear California atmos- 
phere, from the highest point of Mount Diablo and the Yosemite's High Sierras and on 
the Pacific Coast Range of mountains. It was most interesting, in fact extremely fascinat- 
ing, to focus on a special star and notei the spectrum colors radiating earthward in the 
form of a lengthy comet — different stars varying in their colors and color luster as ivell as 
their size and length of radiation. Those' who have viewed the "Gltories of the Heavens" 
by a visit to the Lick Observatories on Mt. Hamilton, in Central California, or those in 
Southern California at Mt. Wilson or Mt. Lowe, remember the glorious rings around Sat- 
urn and the belts in connection with Jupiter. These, when more closely observed with 
prism analysis, appear more gorgeous. And the same intensity of interest is experienced 
by the student in studying the human auras and miniature suns within the human solar- 
plexus system. What is true of the mighty planets above is true of the marvelous creation 
called man, who is a little world dotted with stars and sun centers. ^'As above so below," 
and will add, as without so within. 

These human solar systems of color are elucidated further in Vol. II on The Human 
Planet and Soul Forces. 

o 

WOMAN'S RADIANCE 

The glorious radiance of a woman's sou! is marred by the wearing of much flashy 
jewelry. The souFs "heart of diamonds" represents purity, simplicity, modesty and 
strength. 

o 

Knowledge, like emotions, unexpressed-spells suppression, which with repression reads- 
congestion, meaning disease (lack of ease, low and stow vibration) in the language of 
human life therefore, not to express one's self means ignorance plus darkness and not us- 
ing we are losing the brightest half of our life. 



CHAPTER VI 




THERAPEUTIC BREATHING COLOR VIBRATIONS 

These illustrations, show recert inventions for purifjing the air we breathe in and 
raising the co!or vibrations of the blood, for the purpose of eliminating what is known as 
dis-ease, error and inharmony within the human system, particularly in relation to the 
head, throat and lungs. This Nebulizer is consiructed so that air is drawn from a; hand- 
bulb or a foot pump into the globe, which contaiiis healing, protecting and strengthening 
colors in the form of balsams, including balm of Gilead (extracted from the buds), kuro- 
monji, Scotch pine oil from the leaves, oil of cassia aEd Australian eucalyptus (with a 60 
to 80 per cent eucalyptol). These are among Nature *s highest and best heeding agents in 
the vegetable realm. Inhalation is the most natural method of receMng the visible and 
invisible color forces of the atmosphere, in the form of balsamized or puritied air for res- 
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RELATIVITY OF DIS EASE, EASE AND COLORS 

Just as good and evil are relative, so are colors related. The evil is ^*|ow," or rather 
a slow form of vibration and may be considered stagnant and of the dark or dirt-y type 
(of earth rating), so we have the lowest electronic motions in murky red down to black, as 
seen by the physical eyes. 

When we are evolved; to a high state of consciousness, or arrive at the plane of a 
Heavenly white, or spiritual consciousness, we are functioning with the Godly or good 
forces that level all rates of the seven colors into that which we term white. The spiritual 
and mental and the so-called material rates of vibration will be further elucidated in vol- 
ume II of "Color and Light, Etc." In the "interval of time" remember that the Buddha 
said that ignorance was the cause of all our troubles, and Krishna and Jesus the Christ and 
others of the high plane of love, came to en-lighten the world. 

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HOW NATURE COLORS THE CHEEKS 

Nature applies her colors from within and not just on the outside. It is the coloring 
vibrations, emanating from the blood, that makes a good complexion. No one can possess 
a clear,{ clean, healthy skin if the blood is impure — i. e., murky or low rating colors — with 
consequent lack of vitality. Auto-intoxication from lack of elimination causes the blood 
to become impoverished and forces an unfair amount of work on the kidneys and lungs. 
Closing up the mouths and passages in the skin, by lack of the sun or strong light-opening 
process, will prove the death blow to a beautiful skin. Cosmetics, paints and powders are 
only an excuse and a, temporary apology to the natural complexion. In reality, the skin 
is greatly mistreated, and the cleansing and color forces are not encouraged Ito function 
when the pores are being continually filled and packed down with liquids, pastes or pow- 
ders to cover up impurities that all respectable persons should remove by sunlight penetra- 
tion and exercise in some form. Facial massage is excellent for local treatment, while the 
bottied Sun Cabinet baths are par excellent for naturally producing perspiration and con- 
stitutional elimination. 

So you see beauty is surely far more than skin deep. For persons of sedentary habits 
a genuine oil and warm water internal bath should be taken; the yellow or orange color 
electric lamp is very beneficial in cases of constipation, though it is a slower method. 

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WONDERS OF CREATION 

From the invisible rates of conception, to the visible activities of perception, are re- 
lated the electronic vibrations of intelligence. Thus an unseen intelligent power connects 
(and conducts) that which is reflected. Therefore we are constructed with the spirit's 
mental and physical light reflectors. As the physical eye is the reflecting organ of light and 
colors, so the meiital, or mind's eye, receives, perceives and reflects the highest conceivable 
octave of thought lights and color intelligence. There is not a thing in Nature that can not 
be interpreted by color, translated by sound and understood by the human search-light. 

SOUND AND TONE 

Every vibration, as it passes through space, creates sound peculiar to its rate of mo- 
tion within its own octave or plain. Sound or tone and space are intimately associated and 
registers its effects upon the physical nerves, even when beyond all sense perception. 

Thus, sound or tone are inseparably associated with rhythm and music. As sound 
like the high and faster vibrations of color is the potent force in metabolism, in upbuilding, 
and disintegrating, in constructing and destroying, it is of the utmost importance, that 
we understand these fundamentals and elementals of a life-rating and life-preserving edu- 
cation. If inflicted by brain racking, nervewrecking sounds, termed noise, which are a re- 
sult of disrupted, broken rhythm, the higher we develop along the scale of refinement, 
i. e., the higher we become attuned to the harmonies of Nature, we become more sensitized, 
and should avoid ''city noises" and all discordant sounds. 

VIBRATIONS OF NOISE AND VOICE 

Noise is composed of inharmonious sounds. City Ufe is a bedlam of mad noises day 
and night, except in obscure sections of large parks. Loud noise is not o^ly injurious 
to the nervous system, in that it causes inharmonious, dis-ease or error-producing condi- 
tions, but continuous and unpleasant noises unbalance the secretions and circulat- 
ing fluids of the human body. Noise and shocks are injurious to the brain and prevent the 
natural poise and peace of mind and soul — so needful for the progressive spirit within the 
human soul. Beware of becoming noise intoxicated and noise mad, for this dis-ease of the 
wrong use of sound creates brain fag, nerve prostration, neurasthenia, headache and dif- 
ferent degrees of insanity, all of which was proven in tens of thousands of instances during 
the "World War." 

Loud talk and loud coarse laughter are injurious to the health. Such noises irritate 
the delicate structure of the inner ear as well as the delicate nerves of the mucous mem- 
brane. Loud, and fooMsh talking is coarse and harsh to any person possessing a civilizing 
degree of education and refinem^t which forbids such vibrations. It takes a strong and fine 



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character to speak gently with a well modulated voice. It means balance^ poise and purity 
of motives. Even shouting or screaming should seldom be ^^indulged in.'' For the sake of 
health, for a peaceful home, for purity of mind and body, for the sake of music, for the 
sake of peace, for the sake of all that is good and great and for Heaven's sake possess or 
cultivate a gentle conversational voice. Possess or study the harmony of sounds, music 
and art. 

Parents injure their sensitive children, and the child affjcts its parents, by untrained, 
uncontrolled loud, and oftimes senseless expressions; such habits often lead to hard feel- 
ings, quarrels and fighting, thus preventing that which is thoughtful and noble from devel- 
oping. 

Dear student of higher rating, let us avoid, or better still learn to rate above all these 
brain-racking, heart-shocking, and nerve-strairJng sounds of noise and other inharmo- 
nies. When the vibrations of the human machine have become rhjrthmical, the body, with 
its orchestra of ten thousand strings, has the right balance, and is tl:us in tone or tune, 
vibrating in harmony with all Nature, our Will, the mainspring connected with all our oc- 
taves of vibrations, becones an all-powerful controljnj magnet. 

Societies for the elimination of aO noises and unsightly places a^d sign pictures have 
been organized in various large cities in the United States, as previou ly in Great Britain. 

TRANSPLANTING AND TRANSFERENCE OF COLORS 

Different colors for different persons are absolutely necessary, according to tempera- 
ments and to their natural requirements, which depends upon the human system's lack or 
excess of a color balance, which, in turn, expresses normality and health. If there is too 
much red of a certain grade in the blood or tissues, an inflamed condition is noticeable — 
both on the physical and from the mental' state of a person. If there is too much blue of a 
certain grade in the body, there will develop from lack of a healthy, harmonious or friendly 
red on the physical plane, anemia and jaundice, etc., and across the bridge, into the mental 
realm, "the blues," or & "dis"-agreeable "dis"-position (lack of position, i. e., poise). 

Thus, as Lights and Colors interpret the condition and capacity of the person physi- 
caOy, mentally and through the emotions, they are also translated into the forms, tastes, 
flavors, perfumes, odors and shades of thought, from the inaudible and invisible sounds 
and colors to the visible rates of lights and color vibrations. 

All foods, drink, medicines, and even the air we breathe, are simply modes of motion, 
which represent realms with their degrees of intelligence and color lanjuage — and which, 
like the colored clothing we choose to wear affects our health and disposition favorably; 
the inner ratings of feelings are affected by our thought colors. 



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LACK OF COLOR JUDGMENT, ETC. 
In making presents of ties and other wearing apparel, the majority of persons are de- 
ficient in taste. It is a form of cruelty to children to be compelled to wear an anpleasing 
colored garment, simply because it was presented to them. We should realize that the 
non-blending and dark colors in dresses, ties, hats and suits are not only deiritalizing to 
our nervous system and brain, but are physically and mentally depressing. The masculine 
sex in particular suffer by presents of unsuitable colored ties and sox forced upon them by 
thoughtless or color ignorant persons. One seldom finds a man wearing a black suit and 
not looking tired or entertaining a sour disposition. Remember, dear reader, we can 
starve and suffer greatly for lack of color nourishment associated with our clothes, our 
food and our mental environments. 

o 

THE BENEFICENCE OF LIGHT 

Pearls, like diamonds, lose their luster when kept in the dark, but regain it when in 
contact with strong light. Birds, as a rule, become timid and are easily frightened in the 
dark, but when brought into the sun-light spread their feathers and commence immediately 
to chirp and sing. Flowers droop in the dark, open up and express delight when ^Maylight" 
comes; the plant life is also vitally influenced by the rays of light. So with the human 
"pearls," "flowers" and "plants" or "trees." Observe how the Southern people, or those 
who live an oui-of-door life, are joyful, ruddy, and full of sirong, "sweet" and wholesome 
sentiments and optimism, and notice how their eyes of light and love are expressive and 
their voices are musical. Favorable climatic conditions depend on light with its family of 
friendly forces, represented in i!£me by rays of color and warmth and the sounds of music 
and the electro-magnetic healing rates of vibrations, all of which produce a vital and bene- 
ficial influence on the human body and soul. 

o 

Color is caused by impact of energy waves of var3ring rates of oscillation and lengths 
on the filaments of the retinas of the eyes and transmission of the effects along the optic 
nerve to that mysterious — ^yet marvelously real — thing manifesting as the personal mind 
either unknown to or not recognized in the brain itself. 

o 

"Unit" of light means the shortest idea of light, and this measure is calculated by the 
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FLASH LIGHT THOUGHTS 

Note the signFficant prefix — "dis" — dis-mal, dis-use, dis-rupt, dis-cord, dis-grace 
dis-obey, dis-comfort) dis-courage, dis-advantage, dis-organized^ di&-gust, dis-agreeable, 
all of which signify a dis or lack of harmony, an error of low rating, or a lack of poise 
while vibrating on the human scale of Life. 

We cannot measure the electronic energy concentrated in an acorn; no more than 
we can figure out the condensed radio activity and unlimited possibilities within the 
human embryo. 

Theif eye-ball's whiteness is caused by the fineness of the blood-vessels, which do not 
permit the red corpuscles to enter the surface of the eye-ball. 



Remember, the solar plexusj rays (sunshine) in the mental house reflects sunshine in 
the home. 



An invention has been perfected this year for visualizing the humai voice. 



The author's compliments to Descartes: '^I think, therefore I am," I AM, therefore 
I think. 



The diameter of Betelguese, the big star in the constellation Orion, is 300,000,000 
miles. The diameter of our earth is less than 8000 miles. The diameter of our sun is 866,- 
000 miles. 



Systematic exercises (including deep breathing) is the keynote to elimination. 



As a rule, ro person rates as low or "as bad" as he feels, and none as high or "as 
good" as he thinks. 

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ANOTHER SLEEP INDUCER, PLUS 

For acute, semi-acute or chronic insomnia, try reading dry poetry or prose, and then 
count the breath vibrations. Indians, as a rule, sleep with their feet up hill, and thus pre- 
vent sluggish, dis-ease-producing congestion. 



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CONGESTION IS THE CAUSE OF DISEASE 

If the brain is congested, we call the owner of the same dense or ignorant; if there 
are errors or irregularities or below normal ratings in the physical body, it is termed 
dis-ease. But in any instance, it is congestion — low rating conditions and the stumbling 
block — and the blockading to a clean body, a clear mind and an energizing soul. Take 
care of the passages of the physical body, including all the pores, as well as the respiratory 
tract and the thirty-odd feet of alimentary canal, and Master Nature will take care of the 
human machinery, the vital organs and systems. 

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VISIBILITY OF SEVEN OCTAVES 

The Color octave with its variations is the parent language of the Universe. 

The white light is the middle C note of harmony in the cathedral of the universal Soul, 
which is the souFs treasure house. 

The color spectrum is the master key to the forces of the universe, and includes im- 
measurably more than the visibility of force. 

The human eye can view only ai^ infinitessimal division of Nature's sights. 

Color is the visible as well as "the invisible'^manifestation of vibration. Visibility of 
color to the human sight includes two octaves of color, and with research and concentra- 
tion along the higher color octaves can include more than two octaves. The average per- 
son's visible world is along one octave, while there are some individuals wha observe only 
four or' five and a small per centage of "humans" of slow vibration who can distinguish 
but three or four colors. The lowest rated human beings on the average only see 
clearly thd three primary colors of red, yellow and blue. This same principle and ratio 
corresponds with regard to the musical sound octaves. By finely attuned ears of percep- 
tion, we can see or rather "hear" degrees of color vibrations, not to the ordinary mortal 
discernible. 

COLORED LIGHTS— A MEANS OF DIAGNOSIS AND CURE 

The following is from a reprint by another physicist, Dr. Edwin F. Bowers, on "Col- 
ored Lights — A Means of Diagnosis and Cure": 

If there were developed a means of diagnosis so definite as to be practically infallible, 
as accurate as mathematics, as uniform as a chemical reaction, and so simple that any 
doctor of even ordinary good training could apply it, the significance of the discovery could 
hardly be computed in terms of lives and money. 



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This has been a medical vision, a vague Utopian dream, ever since medicine divorced 
empiricism and meuried Science. And now the vision has become a reality, the dream has 
become an actuality. A fellow scientist and warm friend of the author, George Starr White, 
M. D., of Los Angeles, Calif., discovered a natural principle worthy of close attention of 
the student. 

He merely found out why a sick carrier pigeon could not find its way home. Then 
he applied the principle there discovered to determine why humans and animals that suf- 
fered from disease could not find their way back tox health. The answer was the same in 
both cases. It was of their inability to respond to the magnetism that flows along the earth's 
magnetic meridians. And tkis inability to respond to the magnetic attraction of the meri- 
dians is because some disease in the system prevents the response to this magnetic flow. 

"The greatest living scientists are now agreed that all that differentiates any one thing 
from any other thing in Nature is the difference in its rate of vibration. Color, light, 
sound, radio-active energy or electricity are merely expressions of certain modes of motion 
— a certain rate of vibration. Theoretically, we could change cheese into chalk and mud 
into gold and disease into health if only we could transmute the absolute rate of vibration 
of the other. 

"It will be remembered that only a few years ago this was actually accomplished in 
the case of a certain germ — the anthrax bacillus. These germs, after exposure for a time 
to ultra-violet rays, were changed into an entirely different species of germ, as was proved 
by the fact that when injected into animals they no longer developed anthrax in that 
animal. 

"Thus began the marvelous system of diagrosis to which that soft little body of the 
carrier pigeon pointed the path thirty-five years ago. 

Continuing his work with radiant colors, Dr. White found that patients suffering 
from constitutional blood disease — no matter how mifdly tainted, nor of how long duration 
the condition, and' irrespective of the Wasserman findings (which are almost as frequently 
wrong as right) gave the reflex when exposed to the blue light — the speed which is ap- 
proximately 160,000 miles a second — and to no other light. 

"There is no chance for error. Guesswork is entirely eliminated. If they have syphilis 
they give thi^ reflex to the blue light. If they do not respond — no matter how many emi- 
nent specialists may say they are affected — they are free from this particular disease. 

"If a patient gives a reaction to the rays of the purple lamp, he is gonorrheic. 

"With similar exactness malaria discloses itself to a certain shade of blue-green light, 
influenza or "the grip" to a red-green, kidney intoxications to a shade of violet, liver dis- 
ease and jaundice to green, typhoid to blue-green and amber, and alcoholic conditions to 
deep prune. And gradually more and more of the toxemias are coming into exact classifi- 



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cation as regards their response to vari-colored lights. It is merely a problem in vibration 
— each disease apparently producing a definite molecular rapport with rays of light trav- 
eling at a certain speed. And it would seem that every condition that so modifies the ema- 
nations from the body as to nullify the effect of the energy of the magnetic meridian upon 
it has a definite color vibration for diagnosing it. 

"The colors must be absolutely *on the pitch/ however — ^they must be accurately 
tuned to a certain vibration, else they will fail to elicit the reflex, particularly in incipient 
conditions, or in diseases which are not clearly defined. 

"This 'absoluteness' of vibration, however, explains why Dr. White and his pupils 
must work in subdued light, and also why spectators are obliged to stand back four or five 
feet from the subject. Energy is energy, whether it be strong sunlight, moonlight, electric 
light or the magnetic emanations of the human body. And inasmuch as the energy from 
the magnetic meridian is being used for the diagnosis, any other energy must have an effect 
upon the results secured." 

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A SUNSHINE SOUL FOR HUMAN ENERGY AND COLOR 

A mild and naturally soothing method of securing light and color energy is through 
the agency of direct touch on the surface of the body by the hands of a healthy, finely 
timed (re-fined), friendly sou!, who understands the body psychologically as well as 
physiologically and has the greatest welfare of the patron at heart. With a well-cared-f or 
body, and with no dead or old skin, but kept "clean and sweet," the results are maryelously 
camming and scientifically beneficial. THE OPERATOR should cultivate a strong control 
and ant instinctive or, better still, an intuitive co-operative spirit, and serve from his or 
her Sun-centers and color streams a positive flow of energy. The patron receives 
with confidence from the friendly operator, the richest, positive energy. The receiver 
must become relaxed and negative, so as to be naturally more receptive, as any strain or 
discomfort is a manifestation of some degree of dis-ease, which means congesting the 
flow of that which wiU ease; for a good negative demands a good positive to calm and 
control the balance wheel of the Human Machine.^ The magnetic, high coloring of the 
light emanating from the mind and soul centers of a spiritually, clean-minded person 
and from a strongly-poised and restful instructor and healer, the weary body and brain 
are fruly and wonderfully magnetized. It quickly drives away the "errors" of darkness of 
low vibrations. This is especially true of certain natures and temperaments — with corre- 
sponding and complementary souls, and bodies, the "Temples of these souls" even regard- 
less of sex. In some cases this natural condition is very marked, very comforting and de- 
lightfully calming. In fact, this exchange of the blue to violet, high rating of human colors, 



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represents the most vitalizing nourishment for a hungry or starving soul, and is more of 
the spiritual than of the mental. 

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THE SOUL^S VIBRATION 



Sow a wish^ — reap an urge. 
Sow an urge — reap a breath. 
Sow a breath — reap a light. 
Sow a light — reap a color. 
Sow a color — reap a thought 
Sow a thought — reap an idea. 
Sow an idea — reap an ideal. 
Sow an ideal — reap an action. 
Sow an action — reap a habit. 
Sow a habit — reap a character. 
Sow a character — reap a life. 
Sow a life — reap a unity. 
Sow a unity — reap a universality. 

Sow a universality — ^reap a Heaven. E. J. S. 

o 

Ignorance is a poor pedestal to set virtue upon, and mock modesty should not have 
the right to prevent people from knowing themselves. — R. G. Ingersoll. 

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COLOR SOURCES 



There are other sources of color-energy for a finely attuned person to draw from to 
a smaller degree, viz., the FLORAL KINGDOM, which are also full of a calm inspiration 
and which, to a true poet of nature, are so friendly. Who dare deny the harmonizing ef- 
fect of gazing on and communing with the little sunny natures of the precious rainbow 
colors of the violet, of the loving rose and the darling forget-me-nots. 

Then, too, we have in THE ANIMAL realm the light of love, as expressed in the eyes 
of the deer, the horse and other non-flesh devourip-g a?Jmals. There is a certain mutual, 
pleasing, comforting understanding, truly and sincerely an exchange of friendly magnet- 
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Nature's animal family. Woe to the person who willfully destroys or injures these higher 
developed human-like sources of light and friendship. 

Nature abounds and rebounds with inspirational and respirational colors, and to a 
small degree the human artist attempts to portray color hfe with their respective hues and 
shades. 

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REGISTERING VIBRATIONS 

Through the law of development we can register more and more vibrations. At pres- 
ent the average for the race consciousness for sound is 14 octaves; taste averages several 
octaves; smell averages several octaves. Some human beings can see tone and hear col- 
ors; then there is the registering by touch for distinguishing colors. While all colors possess 
their positives and negatives — black is the combination of all the negatives and the absorp- 
tion of all the colors. White is the universally preferred color combination, for it expresses 
a higher form of vibration. All colors that glow are positive. 



CHAPTER VII 



THE AUTHOR^S BLUE LIGHT EXPERIMENTS 

From 1917 to 1919 the author experimented personally, and with the co-operation of 
Dr. Ella R. Bell, with the electric colored lights by reflex applicators containing two or more 
pure colored glass 40 to 60-watt giobes and with the different sized therapeutic lamps of 
greater power. It was easily demonstrated that red would invariably irritate inflamed or 
painful conditions. We soon learned that yellow and orange were goi)d laxatives, and that 
the biter would slightly relieve inflamed troubles, and that green and purple had a moder- 
ately quieting effect. In other words, the higher frequency colored lights counteracted the 
lower rating electronic conditions. 

It is with the blue triad or division of the sun's spectrum, including indigo and violet 
and with their different hues, that we found by far the most satisfactory results. In severe 
cases of congestion, neuritis and ulcerated conditions, as well as in practically all inflamed 
and painful affections, in addition to affording relief locally the blue and indigo lights, 
especially when focussed on the neck, produced a drowsy efPect. In fact, it produced in 
numerous cases sleep at a very short time, even when half blue and half white colored 
lamps and reflectors were used. When two or three blue globes were included in one of our 
De Luxe Bottled Sunshine Cabinets complete relaxation and sleep for the nervous patron 
v/as the result. 

Many a worn out, nerve-racked person can testify to the immediate counteracting 
effect to congestive conditions of the mind and body, by the use of this very prac- 
tical Science and Mind treatment. The colors are truly the key to the Scriptures of Nature 
and its two-fold universe. 

For severe sprains, blue, we found, to be the color to give relief and reduce the swell- 
ing. For skin eruptions, violet or cobalt blue brought about some almost miraculous 
cures. This is also true in connection with wounds and ulcers. 

Dr. Wm. Poole, a member of the Stevens Light and Color Institute, a surgeon of high- 
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of the old school medication in treating inflamed and acute pains and prescribed the white 
and blue baths or local applications for elimination and relief from bodily poisons. He also 
used it on himself for toothache, etc. 

Dr. Ella R. Bell, a member of our altaff for nearly four years, has used the electric light 
colors, particularly the blue and green, with the most gratifying results. 

At the present time the writer is trying out three different hues of orange and green as 
alteratives and re-energizers. The red, we know from personal experience, should not be 
used for inflamed parts of the body, as it is too irritating. In the author's advanced book 
— Vol. II — some valuable experiments will be reported on the therapeutic, psychological 
and moral effects of the various color hues. It is well known that our ex-President Wood- 
row Wilson owes his recovery largely to his blue light treatments. It was found to produce 
a remarkably soothing and strengthening effect on his wrecked nervous condition. 

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CHROMO-PSYCHO THERAPY 
ELECTRIC LIGHT, HEAT AND COLOR FOOT BATHS 

Dr. J. W. Starkey, foot surgeon in connection with the Stevens Light and Cohv Insti- 
tute, uses the Violet Color for antiseptic cauterizing, and finds the violet rays most! sooth- 
ing. This specialist finds that violet rays promptly relieves pains in the feet and legs and 
also reports that while black stockings irritate sensitive feet, the ISght colored hosiery tends 
to decrease negative conditions. 

Red is stimulating. Yellow and Orange relaxing. Blue is sedative and calming. 
White is penetrating and balancing. Violet is soothing and healfing. Dark red is irritating. 

Extracts from a lecture by Herman Boeker, M. D., delivered on Jan. 7, 1916, at the 
School of Chiropody of New York. 

^To be able to harness this force and to focus it upon any desired organ or function 
of the body, is one of the newest and greatest triumphs of modern therapeutics." 

Finsen noted that the growth of the nails, hair and other epidermal tissues is encour- 
aged by light and hindered by darkness. 

Bacteria which resist strong solutions of germicides, and even prolonged boiling, are 
quickly killed by exposure to light. 

The March, 1919, issue of "The Pedic Items," official organ of chiropody, on page 26, 
contains an article by Nellie B. Cooper, M. Cp. on "Electricity in Chiropody." 

"In the most successful chiropody treatments I have ever given, the violet ray and blue 
light have played an important part. I have had excellent results in many cases of in- 
fected ingrown nails, bunions and corns, the violet ray helping nature to discharge the pus. 
This ray not only increases the circulation, but also reduces the severe pain." 



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One severe case of ingrown nail was relieved by a fifteen minute treatment; the dead 
tissues had been previously removed, the nail-groove had been cleansed, and hot antiseptic 
ointment had been applied, but the parts were so painful that it was impos^ble to slip cotton 
under the nail. The rays increased the circulation and stimulated all the tissues to greater 
activity, with a resultant cure." 

^'After cleansing and opening a blistered heel, it is much relieved by the use of ointment 
and Blue Light." 

If the p£irt to be operated on is very painful, the sedative (blue) should be applied. 

One may often find that a surface is too painful to even bear the weight of the glass 
electrode. For such a condition the Blue Light and the Stevens gold medal awarded Balsam 
Extract A will bring quick results. 

In pedicuring, the use of Blue Therapeutic Light is a great help to a successful treat- 
ment. 

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RED AND BLUE COLORS 

The world over no one ever heard of red stripes on the nurses' dress, uniform or apron, 
but blue is the popular and regulation stripe. Blue is used with, splendid results to calm 
the J insane or unbalanced, particularly in the institutional garments worn by the unbal- 
anced as well as the attendants. Even the state prisons and chain gangs universally keep 
to the blue as the necessary predominant color for the official garb. One only has to 
observe the effect vof red on our friend, the red-blooded bull. It simply adds insult to in- 
jury. It acts like red pepper on an inflamed mucus membrane, for it makes the animal 
nature wild and raving mad till the reaction appears — of heat bringing about cold (a cold 
sweat) — and if the intelligent sub-inteUigence back of the sweat glands were not in close 
touch with the complementary forces of the Parent solar system, we would, after each red 
temper or tempest or cyclone, simply go irretrievably to pieces in this incarnation. The 
red must ever look up to the higher saving grace of the Heavenly blue, or the seventh 
and highest color potency of violet, often termed the angelic hue. 

o 

Vibrations of emotions afFord us the richest opportunity to transplant our ideals into 
practical ideas, and to plant our seeds of newly acquired thoughts into the Soul's garden of 
feeling and unfoldment. With each succeeding thrill of spiritual emotion, we can make 
new inroads and beds for more character seed-planting. As we cultivate the plants of our 
love sowing with the vibrating water of life and warmed by the sun rays of the soul, we be- 
come filled and saturated with the spirit oP health, youth and joy. 



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HOT AND COLD VIBRATIONS 

Cold currents develop heat waves. Heat currents develop cold waves. We learn the 
lesson here that cold, or cool stimulating colors and water baths are for red-blooded persons, 
while warm or tepid color applications or water baths are for blue-blooded and sensitized 
souls. As a rule brunettes take to warm water and blondes to cool or hot water; the same 
is true in relation to the climate and weather. 

Red represents the lower, denser and "coarser" vibrations, v/hile Blud expresses the 
higher, lighter and refining ard healing force of our solar system. Yes, it is the triad of 
blue to violet that works miracles over all the lower color realms and activities. Note the 
calm, majestic magnitude of the great blue sky; the soothing effect of the light blue or 
violet-shaded draping and wallpaper, or the delicate, refined Uttle violets or bluebells of 
Scotland and of the blue eyes of any animal or human being. 

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MARVELS OF PHYSIO-PSYCHO-CHROMOPATHY 

The Blue, Violet, Green and even the Orange, colors in the electric light change our 
static, slow and congested conditions of body and mind into dynamic force. These higher 
colors convert our latent into manifest powers of Health, Success and Joy. 

o — 

BLUE TO VIOLET AND GREEN 

These colors and white electric globes of 40 to 60 or more watts, each arranged six 
inches aparj. alternating, and arranged in an enclosure for local or general bodily uses, 
will emanate the brighter and finer forces of the white light. Using reflecting hardened 
enamel the effect is intensified, and when connected with the purified air, inhalation of bal- 
sam air, the result is naturally magical. It will not only spell vibrations finely attuned 
but it spells emotions finely attuned. 

Elimination 

Perspiration 

Respiration 

with Inspiration 

Thus releasing congestion, disease or "errors'^ committed in the brain and body, and 
which, in the last analysis, reads: Cleanliness is Godliness for the Soul's Clean Human 
Temple. 

COLORS NOURISH and with food more vital than that which the stomach receives. 
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COLOR AFFINITIES AND BLENDING 

The '^White Light'^ represents the union and balance of all the colors. This is trae in 
all the seven octaves and applies to the invisible as well as the visible realms^ and it in- 
cludes the visible human auras and the thought vibrations. 

The three or triad of primary colors of red, yellow and blue are divided into the 
seven colors of red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet. 

Black is the absorption of all colors and represents concealment, repression and 
depression. 

White is an expression of all colors and repre3ents a balance and expansion, and 
revelation. 

The following colors blend and balance- 
Red with Blue 
Orange with Indigo 
Yellow with Violet 
Red mixing with Blue makes Purple. 
The following colors affect one as noted: 
Dark and murky Red is irritating. 
Light Red to Pink is stimulating and brilliant. 
Yellow to Orange is luminous and laxative. 
Green is energizing and vitalizing. 

Dark or heavy Blue like dark Grays and dark Brown, is enervating and dense. 
Light Blue to Violet is cooling, soothing, calming and magnetic 

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TRIAD OF COLOR, FORM AND SOUND 

This family or trinity is intimately associated. Co!or can be tasted by some persons, 
distinguished by touch by some, and others it can be even heard. This is due to a finely 
attuned or sensitized nature together with education by the outer as well as by inner senses. 
Color is to the mental what music is to the emotions. Color hearing and sound seeing are 
known under the name of synesphesia and pho'ism. See encyclopedia. 

Touch is the lower, while seeing is the higher physical vibration. Feeling, which in it- 
self is not classed with any of the outer senses, is the parent of the senses and can 
be made to take the place of any or all of them. It has been discovered by a series of ex- 
periments that the human skin can develop invisible eyes to see, according to scientific 
authorities. 

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the deaf and dumb to dance by musk vibration felt by the feet. Helen Keller is a fit 
example of what feeling can be made to do when some of the common senses were never 
developed. The Patonia New York Asylum for the Blind is training their students to dis- 
tinguish colors, and the results are truly remarkable. 

Color is a force, and tike all forces it is positive and negative. The primary colors are 
red, objective, blue subjective, yellow objective. Positive red is represented as fire of a 
slow rate and as antagonizing and as non-spiritual. It signifies blood-shed, war, hate, rev- 
olution and red anarchy in its negative sense. (See Funk & WagnalFs New Century 
Dictionary foi* the positive and negative of all co'ors.) 

There are innumerable hues and shades and lints in the red and blue colors. Yellow 
negative is represented by jaundice, meanness/ cloudiness. Light yellow is positive and 
means relaxation, receptivity, aspiration. Orange represents inspiration, thought-force, 
glory, courage. Green-negative, unnatural growth, lack of knowledge (green as grass), 
etc. Green-posative means new growth, vigor! and power in unfolding. It is nitrogenous. 
Blue-negative is fatiguing, and when', very heavy may become oppressive. Blue positive 
is purifying and uplifting. Indigo is a little higher rate of frequency and potency than the 
regubr blue. Violet is the highest point of the b!ue triad and just below the X-ray. It 
stands for supreme) g!ory, victory and ideaHstic development. The ultra-violet and X-ray 
are on the border line emanating from the highest point of the octave of colors. 

Thought and Word Vibrations. Every thought, word and sensation sends its color and 
creates the encircling aura. We cannot be afraid of dark places if we keep in tune' with 
the infinite supply' of the white or higher shining lights. We become a center of radiant 
energy. It must be remembered that warm colors are positive, and cold colors are nega^ 
tive. 

Black represents separation, darkness, cloudiness, denseness, crime and death. 

Color builds our environment. We use forty octaves in the training of our intelligence. 
By thought and prayer colors can reach to the fourth dimension. All mot^'o!i is differenti- 
ated by colors. Atomic and molecular' vibrations set up a sound fone^ or a color, and 
these produce cellular vibrations which in turn set up vibrations of the body and stimulate 
the tissue cell and vital organs. To llustrate the power of vibration we read of how 
Joshua marched his army around Jericho till the strong walls of the city shook and fell. 
The rhythm of a great army marching in unison together withi aU their trumpets sounding 
one note produced this natural result. Every General realizes the potency of marching 
his army, keeping the same step on a bridge. Our thoughts as we gather them into a vibrat- 
ing enclosure, like the nervous system and brain with our will power, like a general of an 
army, is powerful enough to shake the foundations of all negative and obstructive lower 



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and negative forces. The thought vibrations which we hold under poise and control are 
potential, while those we send out are kinetic. Thought colors have been photographed, 
and there are some who claim that thought colors are seen by the naked eye. 



CHAPTER VIII 



COLOR SYMBOLISM, THOUGHTS, EMOTIONS, PASSIONS 
AND EFFECTS 

When not otherwise designated, the following colors are measured as a whole by their 
hues, shades or biendings: 

BLACK symbolizes darkness, night, cloudiness, density, sloth and even "crime." 
BROWN represents earth, dust, dirt, doubt ; is a negative and neutral color. 
GREEN represents dawn, awakening. 

The primary or color triangle is Red, Yellow, Blue. Our solar spectrum or rainbow 
colors are red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet, with innumerable hues and vari- 
ations. 

We will continue our lesion on color symbolism. Commencing with the first step of 
our color ladder, we have 

PURE BLOOD RED representing life and stimulation. 

MURKY RED, lower life and animal passions^ irritaing, exciting. 

VERMILLION is materialism, worldiiness, flashy and flightiness. 

PINK, friendliness, light-heartedness, playfulness. 

YELLOW, when murky, is lifeless, sordid, jealous, untrue. 

YELLOW, relaxation, little animal passion. 

BRIGHT YELLOW is pomp, show, shallow or artificiality. 

ORANGE (and Cinnamon) is relaxing and alterative. 

GREEN is vitality, freshness, newness, immolation, inexperience (green as grass). 
DULL GREEN is a sedative and laxative. 
BRIGHT GREEN signifies energy, growth. 
PURPLE is pride, aristocratic, royal 
LAVENDER is sadness, ease. 

BLUE is genuineness, calm, devotion, serene, healing, charming. 
MURKY BLUE is depressing. 
VIOLET is magnetism, goodness. 

BLUE, INDIGO AND VIOLET represent power, high-rating, victorious. 
ULTRA VIOLET is the Heavenly color — -the top of the color ladder. 
WHITE is balance, unity, control, "On the level" 



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COLOR SOURCES AND REALMS 

Visible and Non-visible Lights, Colors, Hues, Tints, Shades and Shadows. Color 
Potency, Their Quality, Their Relationship, Their Uses and Abuses. 



Spiritual Colors. 


Colors in Mysticisna. 


Emotional Colors. 


Colors in Revelation. 


Electronic Colors. 


Colors in Knowledge and Growth. 


Magnetic Colors. 


Color in Sentiments and Romance. 


Sex Creative Colors. 


Color in Health Psychology. 


Gaseous, Colors. 


Color in Classification. 


Liquid Colors. 


Colors in Color. 


Mineral Colors. 


Colors in Light 


Vegetable Colors. 


Colors in White. 


Floral Colors. 


Color in Photography. 


Water Colors. 


Color in Races. 


Animal Colors. 


Colors of Birds. 


Human Colors. 


Colors of Fishes. 


Astral Colors. 


Color in the Ocean. 


Mental Colors. 


Color in Physical Senses. 


Solar Colors. 


Color in Human Complexion. 


Stellar Colors. 


Color in the Skies. 


Angelic Colors. 


Color in the Passions. 


Godly Colors. 


Color in the Motions. 


Esthetic Colors. 


Color in the Aura. 


Colors in Music. 


Color in the Thought. 


Colors in Painting. 


Color in Breath. 


Colors in Poetrv. 


Color in Health. 


Colors in Dreams. 


Color in Disease. 


Colors in Worship. 


Color in Remedies. 


Colors in Character. 


Color in Disposition. 


Colors in Love. 


Color in Foods and Drinks. 


Colors in Marriage. 


Color in Dress. 


Colors in History. 


Color in Houses and Rooms. 


Colors in Morality. 


Colors in Clothing. 


Co-ors in Religion. 


Color in Confectioneries. 


Colors in Education. 


Color in Vehicles. 


Colors in Instinct and Intuition. 


Color in Psycho-therapy. 



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SOUND AND COLOR 

Dr. Edwin D. Babbitt, in his ^Trinciples of Light and Color'' (compiled and greatly 
condensed by W. J. Colville), says: 

^ToEcerning the relations between Sound and Color, much has been said and pub- 
lished. A simple comparison is made by considering the note C at the bottom of the musi- 
cal scale as the equivalent of Red; for C is made with the coarsest vibrations of air, and 
Red is made with the coarsest waves of luminous ether. The musical note B requires 
forty-five vibrations of air every time it is sounded, while C requires only twenty-four, at 
the lowest end of the scale. 

When one musical octave is finished another commences, progressing with twice as 
many vibrations per second as in the one preceding, therefore the same notes are repeated 
on a finer scale. Likewise when the Scale of Color is completed in Violet another octave 
(invisible to ordinary sight) commences with double the number of vibrations common to 
the lower scale. The shortest atmospheric waves of which average human ears can take 
cognizance are about three and one-half inches in length. The shortest Violet rays per- 
ceived by ordinary vision are 100,000 times as short, for it requires 60,000 vibrations, i. e., 
30,000 complete waves of such color, to make one inch in length. The longest waves of 
air perceivable by ordinary human ears as sound are about seventy feet in length; these 
are the lowest bass notes. The longest complete waves of ether receivable into human eyes 
as color requires from 17,000 to 18,000 vibrations to a^ inch, not far from fifteen million 
times as many as the largest waves of sound require. After giving these scientifically dem- 
onstrated facts to his readers. Dr. Babbitt dilates upon the construction of the telephone, 
and then proceeds to argue that human vision is not yet so far evolved as hearing; percep- 
tion of varying sounds requiring less fine development of organism than is needed for acute 
discrimination of colors in various octaves." 

In the words of Dr. Babbitt, "Sunlight constitutes a truly celestial materia medica, far 
safer and far more potent and enduring than any cruder elements, provided we know how 
to deal with it. Minerals are at the lowest end of Nature's scale of forces, and are so crude 
that their particles cannot float in the atmosphere ; consequently they are held down in the 
bosom of the earth. The vegetable world, which contains all forms of nourishment neces- 
sary for the human body, is devoid of the coarser elements, which are sifted out by a beau- 
tiful and most ingenious process in Nature's perfect laboratory." 

HOW TO ARRANGE COLORS IN ELECTRIC LIGHT CABINETS 

In a valuable book (not now readily procurable), "Blue and Red Light," by Dr. Pan- 
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to the curative influence of Color Baths. A woman, thirty-five years of age, suffering from 
consumption in the advanced stage called third, with both lungs seriously involved, afflicted 
with distressing night-sweats and subject to periodical chills and flushing — a case which 
appeared to be hereditary, both her parents and many other members of her immediate 
family having succumbed to a similar disease, — was almost entirely cured by red light 
baths. Dr. Babbitt, in his recital of Dr. Pancoast's testimony concerning the above, and 
many other similar cases equally impressive, suggests that a still more effective color-treat- 
ment would include the employment of deep blue glass for the head, then red beneath it, 
then yellow, and finally red for the limbs. This he declares to be an extremely potent com- 
bination. (It is the scientific and natural method of arrangement of the colored electric light 
globes in a Bottled Sunshine Cabinet.) 

If red is employed for any considerable time and inflammation presents itself, this can 
be readily vanquished by substituting blue temporarily. Purple often serves as the happy 
medium between highly stimulating red and cooling, tranquilizing blue. 

Red proves injurious when the system is highly inflamed, and it is very seldom found 
beneflcial with persons possessing red hair or rubicund countenance. Feverish and excit- 
able temperaments require the soothing influences of green and blue. Every one can receive 
benefit from simple white. 

It is easily within the capacity of every interested reader or student to prove toi his or 
her personal knowledge and satisfaction that color exerts an immense influence upon health 
in all its phases. As insanity unfortunately is still a problem with which society is wrest- 
ling, we count it a pleasing duty and a distinct privilege to offer items of well-authenti- 
cated testimony to the great relief afforded by a judicious use of chromotherapy in the 
treatment of the mentally afflicted and infirm. 

Long ago, in a prominent French lunatic asylum, blue and other light rays were most 
benignantly employed. Except in cases of melancholy madness, red should be excluded 
from the vision of the insane. Blue is par excellence the color which subdues violent mania 
and excites noble moral feelings. 

Yellow acts principally upon the nerves. Among laxatives and purgatives yellow is 
usually the principal color, but in drastic purgatives red is dominant. The well known 
household remedy, senna, displays beautiful flowers of golden yellow ; the calyx is composed 
of five oval yellow leaves; the ten stamens have yellow filaments and brown anthers. This 
good old family friend is pronounced by high medical authority ''an efficient and safe 
cathartic.*' 

Figs, which we can enjoy at any time, are abundant in laxative or aperient properties ; 
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mildly cathartic, is of a yellowish tint. Olive oil, one of our most wholesome and widely 
employed food' products, is pale yellow or greenish yellow ; it is a mild laxative and highly 
nutritive; physicians frequently prescribe it wisely as an antidote to irritation of the intes- 
tines. Sulphur furnishes another example of yellow in connection with laxative properties. 
Eggs with their yellow yolks frequently display similar properties and can be classed often 
as aperients., Peaches have yellowish pulp and are also laxative. Rhubarb of the best 
quality is yellow, tinged with reddish brown. Turning once more from foods or accredited 
medicines to colored glass, it is constantly beii^g demonstrated that the color rays trans- 
mitted through glass augments the effects produced by partaking of suitable vegetable 
foods and remedies andi act as efficient substitutes where the |desarab!e foods or medicines 
are not procurable. 

SOLARIZING WATER 

Dr. Babbitt's favorite practice of solarizing water by exposing it toi'sunlight in HER- 
METICALLY sealed chromo-lenses for several hours before using it, enabled! him to prove 
conclusively how powerful is this simple home remedy, one that cani well be placed within 
the reach of all. Solarized wafer possesses alterative and curative properties so pro- 
nounced as to be almost beyond belief, unless we have individually experimented with it. 

In all cases of costiveness, yellow and orange are the colors which act most readily 
and satisfactorily, however they may be applied. There are many plants which so combine 
red with yellow — of these dandelion and mustard are notable examples — as to act both as 
gentle stimulants and laxatives. Orange glass (electric lamps) and the solarized water 
are of great efficiency in the same direction. 

Dr. Babbitt declares that such violent poisons as prussic acid and strychnine owe their 
intense force to the fact that they contain a vast amount of yellow principle, which is a 
nerve stimulant, and that this is powerfully combined with the red principle which stimulates 
the blood.. 

On the lower side of green we discover the stimulating colors, and on its upper side the 
calming, moderating and spiritualizing colors. Contrasting the red of fire with the gold of 
sunlight, the green of foliage and the blue of a clear sky, and sometimes of peaceful waters, 
we can all realize how intensely affected we can be by the prominent presence of one or 
other of these pronounced colors within our immediate field of vision. 

STYLE OF POWER OF SUBSTANCES 

Since the style of power of a substance is revealed by its color, we can speak of it as 
a (spectroscopically) red, blue or yellow substance, etc., and can summarize as follows: 



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Electrical 



Vialet 



To the Ni 



erves 



Cooling 
Soothing 



Indigo 




and 
Antiseptic 



Blue 



To the Blood 



Green 



Thermal 



Yellow 



Animating 
Stimulating 



To the Nerves 



Orange 



and 
Warming 



Red 



To the Blood 



The upper half of the scale of color substances are called Electrical, and are soothing, 
antiseptic and cooling; blue to the blood; violet to the nerves. Indigo partakes of the 
nature of both blue and violet and is cooling and soothing to both blood and nerves. Green 
is also a mixed color, partaking of the nerve-arJmating qualities of yeOow and the blood- 
cooling properties of blue. 

The lower half of the scale of colors are called Thermal, meaning heating, and are ani- 
mating, stimulating and warming: red to the blood; yellow to the nerves. Orange partakes 
of the nature of both red and yellow and is therefore stimulating and animating to both 
blood and nerves. 

Remedies that are anti-febrile, cooling, soothing and anti-inflammatory, have blue pre- 
dominating, while nervines and heart depressors have much violet. It may be well to note 
here that most physicians are not fully alive to the value of this color key to the styles or 
powers of their remedies. When they become so, the spectroscope is destined to become a 
very useful instrument in building up a more scientific Materia Medica. 

The effects of light shining through g!ass of various colors on vegetable growth is so 
clearly and frequently demonstrated, that no reasonable person who has ever witnessed its 
marked effects can possibly doubt the actual influence of colors entirely apart from any 
human mental suggestion. 



! believe that unrestricted intelligence, including intuition, is the master key to the 
heavenly gates of success, freedom, liberty and joy and that Nature is the world's greatest 
text book.— E. J. S. 



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THE SCIENCE OF KEEPING YOUNG 

The reader wonders why some people die apparently in full possession of their facul- 
ties in what should be their prime of life — 45 to 65, or even earlier — especially stout peo- 
ple, while others enjoy life and "keep young" up through their 70s, 80s and 90s, and still 
others under favorable conditions, pass 100 years. In the Balkans, in the Scandinavian 
countries, in Persia and particularly in California and Mexico, it is not uncommon to find 
a few persons in every neighborhood enjoj ing' life much beyond the century mark. 

So far as Science is concerned there seems to be no reason for limiting life. Tissue 
cells of animals have been kept alive outside any physical body for years and years, so 
long as they have been kept clean and periodically washed of poisons and nourished. 
Why not apply this common sense process to human bodies and indefinitely extend the 
living-on process, for the sake of service and happiness? With the growing intelligence of 
a superior race, great things are in store for those who read and heed the signs of Nature 
and Science. If cleanliress is Godliness, then; it is strength and youth and life to keep the 
cells, the tissues, the pores and all the cavities and passages open by cleansing and elimi- 
nating the obnoxious, interfering obstructicns to our life and progress. Dear concerned 
reader, do not "leave a stone" or even a pebble unturned till your system receives periodi- 
cally its necessary and all-imp orant house cleaning. Remove the great cause of 
disease — low rate vibrations of dirt and disease causing congestion — and its consequence, 
death, to this body loaned to us by Mother Nature. Be wise, be clean. 

People rust out, instead of wearing out or living on and on. Some vital organs "break 
down" because a lot of absolutely unnecessary fat or diseased (inharmonious) obstruc- 
tions are crowding them out of place as a result of lack of knowledge and wisdom. They 
deny themselves — their human automobile — even the attention they give to a common 
machine, they are continually watcJiing and repairing. Is the human machine less import- 
ant than a factory machine, which, relatively speaking, is simT?ly a tool? Most people 
make no effort to live; the opposite seems true, for they habitual-y obstruct every avenue 
that supplies life nourishment by thoughtless, careless and amoi?*? many so-called respect- 
able people, unrefined and unclean habits. The principle underh hg "Let there be light" 
and "Let there be life" is identical, and this means, "Let there be cleanliness, let there 
be purity," otherwise congestion, which causes obstruction to all the higher life endurance 
on this planet, so far as the soul of human beings is concerned. 

Have your physical house examined, and if you have not learned how to understand 
your "frame of mind" have it also analyzed and then learn to be your own teacher. 
"Know thyself" means also teach yourself and heal yourself in the last analysis. There 



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IS nothing within reason impossible with the God principle within us. Knowledge applied 
rightly is pov/er, and power means that "all these things shall be added to you." Do not 
wait till Nature has to talk by its language of PAIN. The true and greatest physician is the 
one who is able to prevent the accident of errors^ alsa termed dis>-ease. High Nature will 
co-operate with you to keep healthy, strong and young, for Nature helps those who help 
themselves. Be warned that no one can break Nature's laws without paying the penalty, 
for it is a matter of sowing and reaping, cause and effect. Avoid the danger line always, 
especially when overflowing with health and vitality. So, dear friendly soul, do not com- 
promise with Nature, who is in reality your very best friend, but "heed the gong." 

X, ■ ° ^ 

; TO BE SUNFUL, SOULFUL, SONGFUL^ 

' Let the beauteous, healthful light rays, 
The strengthening, helpful light rays. 
Enter thy Body, Mind and Soul, 
''*Let the glorious. Heavenly sun rays, ' . 

' The cleansing, sweetenihg siin rays, . 
- " ' Enter the temple of thy s6ul.— E. J. S. 




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RADIO- VITANT APPLICATORS 

^ (Extracts from F. F. Biirdick's Brochure) 

Few physicians are to be found, in these Hays of progress, who have not experienced 
some of the splendid rsu!ts of Radianfi Light and. Heat in combatting pain, relieving local 
congestion, and increasing the nutritive processes, both local and general. 

The purpose of the Radio-Vitant Applicators is to supply a nearly universal method 
of appMcation, simple to operate, perfect in control, light to handle, and having proper 
thermal ihsu^ation for protection of both patient and bedding. 

Every physician and nurse knows well the disadvantages of hot water bottles, electric 
rads, coap-stoneS; etc., for making "Local Applications," and for combatting sub-normal 
temperatures, and will welcome the simple, practical methodS|Outlined in this brochure. 

The Radio-Vitant method provides the widest^ range of Light (Col^r), Hot Air and 
Steam in the mo:t conve:!iert and effective possible manner. 

Visible frequencies alone are attuned to the scale of animate vibratory impulses. In 
other words, the enviro-^ment most favorable to vital functioning is within the luminous 
media, particularly in the yellow and green colors with their characteristic vibrations in 



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both length and frequency. For example, the human eye is inactive — receives no visual 
stimulus — under or above the luminous scale, and is most active within the central portion 
of the spectrum. Departure from this scale of harmonies in the human body means dis- 
ease and finally death. Proper application of Light rays tends to restore the normal 
rhythm of cellular activities in most diseased conditions. In fact, no other natural agent 
is so capable of influencing both the mental and physical states of mankind for good as is 
Light. 

As the physicist has learned, the Electric Light is identical with Sun Light. In fact, 
it is Sun Light resuscitated from the energy long stored in fuel. This latent energy in coal, 
liberated in the furnace and tranformed in the dynamo, is flashed forth in radiance from 
the electric arc or incandescent filament on its mission of service to the world. In other 
words, the subtle force — that potent silent process that tints the petals of the Ulac and 
the lily, that scents the rose and the jasmine, that flavors the ripening fruit in the orchard, 
or paints the cheek and brightens the eye of the ruddy school-gbrl — is one and the same of 
Nature's forces, whether at work in the flower garden or on the sands of the seashore. 

But while it is the same force at work in every case, only in the Radio-Vitant Cab^ 
inets is it possible to obtain that constant control, that accurate adjustment at all 
times when needed — summer or winter, sunshine or showers." 

OUR LIGHT AND COLOR SELF 

That which we call "our-selves," our physical system of densely organized vibrations, 
represents only a few of the out-going rays, reflected from the great White Solar System 
connected with the real Self. 

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LAW OF COLOR CORRESPONDENCE 

Reader and student, "Know Thyself." Find your color chord, which represents the 
realm on which you vibrate, for the purpose of increasing your health and adding to your 
invisible vapors from Nature's essential oils — of light colors charged with ozonized air. It is 
by the combination of the trio of Nature, Science and Mind that we accomplish the greatest 
results on this planet or plane of consciousness. 

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You cannot paint a healthy, sparkling eye or a pure, brilliant gem and add to its lustre. 
— E, J. S. 



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THE LIGHT BATH IDEA 

In an article by F. F. Burdick he says : ^'All vegetation, in field and f orest, is quick- 
ened from tiny seed and bud in springtime, to leaf, flower and fruitage by the vitalizing 
rays of the summer sun. Light energy is a vilal stimulant to animctl and vegetable cells 
alike." 

Mr. Burdick continues: 

The question is often asked, "Why is the Light Bath superior to Russian or Turkish 
Baths?" BrieSy stated, the Light Bath is superior to any other heating bath because, 

1 — The Light rays penetrate the tissues and generate heat within the body, stimulating 
the sweat glands to profuse action, dilating the blood vessels of the skin and muscles for 
most active hyperemia, with the temperature of air surrounding the body of the patient (in 
a properly ventilated Cabinet) no higher than the temperature of the blood. 

2 — Prolonged general applications of intensive heat to the surface of the body, in the 
form of hot-dry-air or steam, are a vita! depressant, lowering the resistance of the patient, 
while in the ventilated Light Cabinet these evil effects are avoided. 

3 — The penetrating Light rays have the same relative stimulating and vitalizing effect 
upon the blood stream and nerve centers that is everywhere observed from the action of the 
sun's rays upon vegetation about us. 

The experience of A. J. Ochsner, M. D., LL. D., F. A. C. S. (Chicago), as related in a 
recent edition of his work on Surgery, illustrates this point 

"In a personal experience with septic infection — the pain was so severe that it seemed 
unbearable — dry and moist heat had no effect upon the pain. When the use of electric 
light was suggested it seemed unlikely that this could act differently from the other forms of 
heat that had been employed. 

Upon applying the light, however, the excruciating pain disappeared almost at once, 
and since this experience we have employed the light treatment in hundreds of cases of pain 
caused by septic infection, and quite regularly with results that were eminently satisfactory, 
not only as regards the relief of pain, but also because the remedy assists materially in 
reducing the infection." 

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NECESSITY THE MOTHER OF INVENTION 

Aftef all, there is only one disease, and the name of that is "congestion." If con- 
gestion affects the mind, it is termed "Ignorance" (lack of a high, normal vibration) ; if 
it affects the physical body, it is termed "disease" by the Natural Scientist and "error" by 
the christian scientist. But in either case, it means "lack of ease," and the existence of an 



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irregular, abnormal, unnatural condition. The ordinary so-called '^civilized*' being is to- 
day not nourished with sufficient sunshine. Therefore the modern scientist has har- 
nessed sufficient "sun'' in a convenient manner to serve him with the "bottled sunshine/' 
in order to bring about the required equilibrium and normal poise to counteract the dis- 
eased or erroneous condition. This is the most convenient modern method of admin- 
istering Hght, heat, and the necessary colors required for bringing about a true state of 
health, or harmony in The Human Machine. Thus, as necessity is the mother of invention 
the Nulife and the Deluxe electric sunlight bath-cabinets are the most excellent methods of 
using the radiant light and heat, with the colors. If your practitioner is up to date he will 
recommend the healing, preventative, exhilarating electric sunlight bath-cabinet — used 
under his own orders by an operator of established charactei^ or by instructions for home 
use. 

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Let there be Light — Abstract. 

Let there be Light — Concrete. 

Light is composed of 3 primary Colors. 

Light is composed of Electric Currents and Magnetic Waves. 

Light is composed of Actinic Healing Rays. 

Light is composed of Thermic Healing Rays. 

The three Primary Colors separate into the Seven Colors of the Solar Spectrum — 
which are the Rainbow Colors — Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo and Violet.- 



CHAPTER IX 



ELECTRONS, ATOMS AND MOTION 

Every atom and electron is in motion. As everything is made up of these, everything 
is vibration and are intelligently represented by corresponding sounds, music, tints, shades, 
hues, lines, etc. ; in mother words, colors. 

Everything we sense has to do with color. For examples, look at the blue sky, the hue- 
tinted sunsets, the solar spectra rainbow, the Northern Lights, the fields, flowers and fruits, 
the vegetables and grains, the birds, fowl and fish, the animal and human creation as well as 
the mineral realm; look at the wearing apparel, the people, the complexions, the photo- 
graphs and pictures in general ; look at the confectioneries, the perfumes and extracts. 

What is true of the visible colors, as sensed by the physical eyes, — the rate of light 
vibration — ^is increasingly true of the invisible world of things both below as well as above 
and beyond our limited vision. 

Sound and music belong to the color realm and represent many, many vibrations and 
emotions ; in fact, all the physical and special senses represent manifestations of vibrations 
and colors. All nature within our little human planet is in vibratory motion. 

The positive current and tones and colors flow from east to west. The smaller worlds 
or realms, like the human body, are relatively and proportionately radio-active with ex- 
pressing colors. 

The solar plexus is the great central and controlling sun, though the brain centers of 
light and intelligence are closely connected. There are other systems of suns and colors 
within the human realm and myriads of smaller lights and intelligences. The atomic and 
electronic streams of colors, from the lowest formed molecules and cells, represent a higher 
or lower consciousness and obey the law of correspondence in tone, pitch and power when 
called upon by the human aggregated and individualized thought power called Will. 
We can induce the white light of seven colors as well as any of these — like red or blue — 
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We are tremendously influenced by our colors, or lack of color vitality. Certain colors 
are attracted to us. 

The solar plexus is where the color generates and flows freely. Man is such a mingling 
of whirling vibrations and colors. We are a positive and negative sea of color vibrations. 
Too deep shades of vibrations and colors cause disease. Dr. Julia Seton, the famous author 
and lecturer, in a public address said: ''The varied colors as seen in the flowers represent 
harmonious sound of music.'' 

There is a stream' from flowers, which are the prevailing colors: Red, green and yel- 
low. The blue is an overtone and is both positive and negative. Blue is strongly receptive, 
and is by some even called the positive. 

Pink, violet and white flow from north to south. 

The sound and music chord of C has many tone (color) vibrations. 

The chord of G is the normal tone (voice) of some people. 

Pink is an emotional color. 

Tuberculosis is an emotional color dis-ease. 

Neurasthenia is an emotional color, lack of ease (dis-ease). 

Yellow is the color of the neurasthenic and the overworked mental person. 

Violet and ultra violet persons are the angelic faced. The violet and ultra violet rays 
are the highest and the hardest to reach. 

Red is positive, and represents vigor. 

Pink and blue to violet are the great healing colors. These are soft, gentle and 
"sweet." "A soft answer turneth away wrath." 

Violet vibrations — inspiration, illumination and aspiration. 

The white shades are of many colors^ for there are many shades of white — ^"yellow 
white, crystal white and "snow white," etc. 

Dr. Julia Seton made the following remarks to a public audience in San Francisco in 
1919: "We should have white and color treatments. No person can do without the light 
and color vibrations. The New Civilization people are appreciatng these facts. A doc- 
tor of Chicago has made a tremendous success of the Cabinet light treatments. There is 
a New Civilization gentleman here — Dr. E. J. Steveiis — who has a light and color thera- 
peutic institution in this city. There is great benefit to be derived from the light and color 
appliances and cabinets, which I believe in. The colors assist our development, for it af- 
fects our feelings and our emotions, thoughts, words and all our actions. Certain colors 
for rooms have a restful influence on a patient. Music and colors are the great coming ther- 
apeutic agencies. We sliould suit ourselves with colors, sounds and music." 

The time will come when not only will color baths be taken in private homes, as well 



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as in public institutions in every civilized land^ particularly in city residences, but music 
baths will be used once or twice a week, or oftener, in order to cleanse inharmonious vibra- 
tions from the mind and eliminate cross vibratioi^s that entangle the souls, and thus be a 
means to help maintain the tone of one's mind and soul, and calm and control the emotions. 

Harmonious idbrations, such as music, cleanses the spirit's soul house, just as the 
highest physical cleansing agents — light and color— cleanse and strengthen the body and 
physical mind. All these color agencies maintain the toire of the individual. We should 
seek every opportunity for the use of the highest order of cleansing. Besides, music 
should be as much a part of our day's education and enjoyment as any other important 
function. 

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COLORS IN THE HUMAN ATMOSPHERE 

It may be well to add what W. J. Colville, the noted lecturer, has said concerning blue. 
A "fit of the blues" is a very common expression to denote despondency of feeling, but we 
also speak of "true blue," which conveys a totally different suggestion. The blue of des- 
pondency may be called "false blue," as it is a bluish grey and not a genuine blue of any 
variety. 

Dr. Babbitt, who devoted much time and thought to practical investigation as well as 
to literary research, when dealing with "Colors and Forces of the Brain," using language 
common to phrenology, said that all grades of affection are expressed in different kinds of 
red ; pure spiritual affection is shown in beautiful red, but merely sensual affections display 
dingy red. Swedenborg's teachings regarding color-symbolism are precisely to the same 
effect. Dr. Babbitt associated Benevolence with a very beautiful type of green, Rehgion 
with yellow, Firmness with blue, Self-esteem with purple. The kind of religious feeling 
dominant in a religious person must inevitably change the type or grade of yellow, so much 
so that "pure and undefiled" religion emits a bright golden radiance, while the lower forms 
of religious sentiment, sometimes selfish and often mingled with craven fear, show forth in 
dull and uninviting yellow. Dr. James Rodes Buchanan, who gave much attention to this 
subject, said that the blue of Reasoning Powers is a grade higher than that portraying sim- 
ply firmness, and he spoke of a very fine grade of yellow betokening Veneration, pure and 
simple. A normal nose, he said, gave forth a green emanation; lips yellow, with orange 
below them; the chin emits scarlet. 

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Health and prosperity represent circulation, and money in motion spells circulation. 
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LIGHT AND COLOR CURES 

Physical and mental diseases are simply low rates congestions, causing crossed wires 
to temporarily interfere by interrupting the progress of the higher thoughts of being. The 
remedy for this uneven, inharmonious, interrupted condition is the use of Nature's higher 
visible forces of Light in combination with the fine, light and color forces of the mind. 
These pure and powerful agents will clean and clear out all the dis!-eases caused by our mis- 
takes or errors and bring back a harmonious, healthy, right of way to our heavenly (evenly) 
progress. The primary colors of red, yellow and blue, or red, orange, green and violet, are 
the great regulators or alteratives. A combination of all these colors produces a perfect 
white or equilibrium. The spectrum colors of the natural agencies of Light, as seen by the 
eyes and those felt by the mind (thoughts) are more natural and potent for an evolving 
human being, than the use of the mineral or even the vegetable mediums, but perhaps 
the masses of humanity are not yet prepared or evolved to the realm of higher octaves of 
cleansing or healing rays. The higher rate colors operate in dispelling disease colors in the 
body, restoring health by color potency. Thus, a person suffering from malarial fever is 
treated with quinine, which is composed of blue waves, and these drive out the lower con- 
gested agents — truly a method of cleanliness and cure. Even this form of administering 
blue will eventually be superseded by the sun and mind spectrum, containing the finer prim- 
ary colors, which of course are preferable. 

Light, with its family of colors, is not only the Giairt Cleanser and Heavenly Purifier, 
but it is the greatest of foods for the nourishment of the human body, mind and souL The 
sunlight, as well as the Light of the higher intelligence of the mind, is now being used in 
a remarkably satisfactory way for locating and diagnosing all manner of dis-ease. 

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SLEEP INDUCING VIBRATIONS 

(1) To "fall asleep," or for rejuvenating, recline on your back, relax and think of a 
"cream-white" (or light yellow) wall, then think away the white wall and "let go." 

(2) Bask and relax while on your back or side, allowing the sun to shine on the 
body. Keep the feet warm. 

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MARVELOUS COLOR EXPERIMENTS 

During the years of 1917 and 1918, the author made a number of experiments on 
himself in treating acidosis, caused by a lack of sunshine and exercise, which resulted in 
poor elimination. Lack of the sun's nourishment and stimulation decreased the necessarj^ 
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mental strain, there was a deficient amount of magnetism to lubricate and sooth the nervous 
system. Therefore, the electric acid, acidity of the stomach, resulted in periodic 
attacks of acidosis. Sodas and hot-water drinking failed to relieve the intense pains, and 
acidity, so while thinking what next to do, late one night, after returning from an 
Oakland demonstrating lecture on drugless methods, and actually getting no bene- 
fit from soda and hot water drinking, and remembering the very soothing and 
healing effects of light and heat, and that inflammation and pain were asso- 
ciated with the low raiSng of red, I tried a blue Hght turned on from a 60 watt 
electric globe radiated just over the chest. The headache quickly disappeared. The 
light was reflected from the metal reflector so as to cover the surface of the neck and the 
thyroid gland, which h a most important organ for controlling the digestive juices and 
functions. The light blue gave splendid and immmediate results. The acidity and pain, as 
well as the inflammation, were quickly relieved. The acid seemed to turn into an alkaline 
condition and became sweet and natural. In acute or semi-acute cases of indigestion 
or sore throat or chest, the benefit was all that could be desired. In several extreme attacks 
of acidity of the stomach the immediate application of the blue lights changed the acid 
into an alkaline condition. When the mucus membrane is red and congested, the higher 
hues of blue act as a natural alterative and the beneficial results seem miraculous. 

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DIAGNOSING AND HEALING BY COLORS 
Doctor George Starr White has diagnosed thousands of the most obscure cases the doc- 
tors of America could "dig up" for him, and has never made a mistake in a non-complicated 
condition. Doctor George Starr White, the noted physicist, diagnoses disease by the use of 
Light, Color and Sound vibrations. 

Dr. Bowers of New York says: "Remember that the light that elicits the reflex — that 
tells what the disease is — if used faithfully and correctly for a period of time, tends to cure 
the disorder that caused the abnormal condition. This is the hope held out to those suffer- 
ing from tuberculosis, cancer, or the chronic toxemias, which, under our present methods, 
are most generally incurable." 



COLOR BLENDING FOR HARMONY 

Affinities: Red and Blue, Yellow and Violet, Orange and Indigo. 

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Cool baths are for red-blooded persons, while warm baths are for blue-blooded 
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CHAPTER X 



THE SUPER-WOMAN OF PUkE COLOR RATING 

A truly normal woman is 60 per cent feminine and 40 per cent masculine, total 100 
per cent. 

The superior woman must be God-loving, good natured, refined and truthful. She 
must be affectionate, unselfish, sympathetic and tactful, intelligent and able to see things 
at a glance. Cheerfulness and humor should be amongst her attributes, such qualities help- 
ing to lighten the burdens of life. 

She should attract health for both body and mind, in order to expel the old-age disease 
and other negative conditions. She should cultivate a sunshiny disposition, which will 
grow and blossom marvelousJy and bear fine, serviceable fruit. She should be useful and 
able to turn her hand to anything, and at the same time not neglectful of her mind, which 
she should provide with strengthening food. 

She must be patient and able to catch the idea which struggles through broken expres- 
sion, by encouraging intuition. 

In every true woman's soul is a depth of sweetness and tenderness, which she must not 
allow to dry up. The more it is used the more it will increase. 

This true woman is nobly planned to warm, to comfort and command, by her strong, 
sympathetic, intuitive influence. 

This superior woman is ever on the alert to enjoy a clean, healthy body and mind; re- 
fined in dress. Her religion should be based on the Golden Rule, plus unselfish love toward 
all. Her keynote is "B Natural." 

This woman will always vibrate love, joy and youth — avoiding all old-age thoughts, 
words and deeds. And like her counter or complementary part, called the super-man, she 
should be independently dependent, and yet passionately enjoying individuality and 
freedom. 

Fond of the out-of-door life, and yet loving the home and child life, as well as fields 
and flowers, and cultivating creative thought. 

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''A rolling stone gathers no moss," but who wishes to be a moss-back? A rolling 
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THE SUPER-MAN 

God's ideal is now evolving; 

With great forces men belong. 
Super-men are now unfolding 

For a race . . . super-strong. 
Earth's the school-house, Life's the training; 

Here we're dwelling but a time, — 
Nature's pupils! — And we're making 

Glorious strides on earth sublime. 

Life's a siudy, Life's a bkssing 

When we understand the same. 
Thought inspiring, soul refreshing, 

We keep young in Life's great strain. 
Light through darkness generating, 

Mists give way to strength of sun; 
Thus the Soul-rays, penetrating 

Through ^^our clouds" when sorrows come. 

Does not light come with the morning? — 

And through gray fogs bright rays shine? — 
Thus the soul-urge — Light vibrating — 

God's own image — Man divine. 
Let all troubles, disappointments, 

Oppositions, move along; 
Count them problems and appointments — 

Friends they are to make us strong. 

We are students, always learning 

From the cosmos realms of thought. 
Old age thoughts ne'er expressing. 

By the man whom God has wrought. 
Pluck and Push, and Perseverence, 

Stepping stones to walk UP ON 
Ah! it's joy — great joy — progressing. 

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Let's be thinking! Let's be doing! 

Let it be with song and smile! 
For we're growing while we're going — 

On life's journey, mile by mile; 
It's right thinking and right living — 

Breath of life — to fight the wrong; 
Food for mind and Soul inspiring, 

For life's work to keep us strong. 

Art and Science at our bidding; 

Light and Love to help us grow; 
Music thrills our very being; 

In Life's feast we feel the glow; 
Why lose time then, sighing, longing? 

Heaven is not beyond the sun. 
Heaven is here, to us belonging; 

It's the home of Super-man. 

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LIGHT, COLOR AND AIR THERAPEUTICS 

Red fire, hot water and steam belong to the lower rates and coarser grades of light 
and heat ; in fact, a person may become weak and even ill by the use of these applications. 
On the other hand, the rays of Sunlight, together with its balanced colors and finer heat 
rays — in direct contact with the physical body — pass through every tissue, entering and 
.cleansing every organ, atom and cell, revitalizing, regenerating the psychic and spiritual 
forces. Clean, clear, healthy light, with its color rays, generate a more enduring warmth 
and strength and is a far greater cleanser than the water and steam treatments and baths, 
the same is true of air baths. 

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RHYTHMIC BREATHING AND COLORS 

For persons who do not enjoy the natural out of doors — natural life, too much cannot 
be said in favor of the great benefit that is to be derived from systematic deep breathing. 
The introduction of oxygen and the purifying of the blood is more fully accomplished. It 
is natural to take an occasional deep breath. 

Nature's purified air is drawn into the unused' cells of the lungs, expanding and 
strengthening those that may have been wholly or partially collapsed, and also the bron- 
chial tubes, and all of the air passages to and in the lungs; thus the lung capacity has 
been greatly increased, as indicated by a chest expansbn of several inches more than could 
be made before the inhaling treatment was used. It also has a very beneficial effect upon 
the throat and vital organs, rendering them stronger and greatly increasing their capacity, 
adding breath coloring to the speaking and singing tone. 

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UNBOTTLING SUNSHINE 

Do you realize^ — 

That all our troubles may be good friends in disguisse? 
That our mistakes can be strong steps on which to rise? 
That it's not too late to turn from fooHsh to wise? 
That those who fail or fall can soar to loftier sides? 
That to doubt and say "I can't" are poor confessions? 
That to lift our burdens means to stop depressions? 
That our problems mean to us, our rich possessions? 
That lack of ease means dis-ease or dis-appointments? 
That dis-appointments may bring us new appointments? 



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THE ODIC LIGHTS AND COLORS 

Copy of a Letter Written by the Author to a Scientific Research Friend at Indio, Calif., 

August 26, 1918. 

As you have asked me for more data on these strange odic lights and colors, a few 
points relative to these finer forces would not be amiss, while our minds are on this line of 
thought and investigation. 

Odyllic, or odic light, is sometimes called flourescent light, and is generally connected 
or associated with magnetic waves or the electric current, though it may be associated with 
other light rays. 

It can be seen through the Crookes X-ray tubes by the use of a screen to shut off the 
outer lights. 

Natural, or madel up by a chemical process substance, of a crystaline composition, is 
now used for producing some marvelous results. Tungstate of calcium (or lime), when 
fused in a furnace, produces at a certain heat crystals about the size of a pin head, which 
are glued together, and under certain conditions produce extraordinary results. (The 
X-rays and the tung^sten lamps use this combination.) Thus we have one of the sub- 
stances for polarization uses (the polarizing along electronic lines). 

Polarized rays are the methods of developing colors by means of refraction. Glass 
prisms of the highest grade vitreous material are used in the scientific manufacture of the 
triangle and diamond-shaped reflectors, to produce, or rather to reflect the colors, as they 
cross and recross in order to appear on the surface of animate and so<alled in-animate 
things — something like an aura. Diamonds produce this effect in a small way ; in fact, the 
principle is the same as using the ordinary scientific vitreous triangle, which is so very 
much larger. As the writer possesses several imported high grade prismatic, or ^'pris- 
matoidal," cut glasses, of from two ounces to half a pound in weight, you may have the 
pleasure of doing a little research work, or rather play, on your return from your trip 
away down in the "desert of America." I would like to enjoy the privilege of experiment- 
ing al little on the "Indio Oasis," but can hardly spare the time away from our Research 
Studios in San Francisco. 

Bear in mind that the real electric color is blue and its nature cold to freezing, and 
that its complementary color is red; this isi its natural affinity, and these colors attract 
each other. This applies to every realm of nature throughout the Universe, whether it be 
in connection with the visible or thei invisible world. There are many octaves of colors 
that as yet have not been seen. We have splendid reasons to believe thqj same is true of 
the hues and shades. All colors have their color affinities, or, more strictly speak- 
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of the ode, i. e., odic colors, as of any other color realm; in fact, in a deeper and far 
reaching sense, these odic colors represent greater potentiality. 

We are on the eve of marvellous discoveries and mighty inventions in connection 
with these odyllic mysterious and fascinating color forces. Heretofore, it has been left to 
the poet,the artist and to the inventor to enjoy the happy draamland of special soul visual- 
ization. Of course, others at times cognize this spirit of intelligence and enjoy the varied 
colored rays of inner consciousness, but the great mass of human beings see slight glim- 
merings (if they observe at all) of those finer colors and hues; some are interested, and a 
few students of Nature are even alive to the potential possibilities, and a very few advanced 
thinkersf ar^ commencing to realize that these color forces may be unfolded, developed 
and harnessed sometime for '^every-day use'' for light and power. 

For Vol. II of "Vibrations, Their Principles; Light and Color, Their Uses," the author 
is gathering together from his own experiences and research work, perhaps more data, 
along the odic color line, than can be found in any one book. 

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ODIC-ACTIVITY RAYS 

The odic-activity ray, more powerful than the X-ray or thej radium ray, is to com- 
pletely conquer the air. 

The giant sky Uner, safe as any conveyance ever perfected, equal in luxury and com- 
fort to the palatial greyhounds of the ocean lanes, is a posiiiibilty and probability of the 
near future. 

These were the announcements made by Prof. Edgar L. HoUingshead, scientist of 
Pasadena, in an exclusive interview in May, 1921. 

For, he declares, this powerful ray will make metals so light that a huge steel sky ship 
would become light as a bubble. 

Not only this, but the odic-activity ray, Prof. HoUingshead claims, will take the place 
of radium, valued at $120,000 a gram, and revolutionize the scientific world in the treat- 
ment of certain diseases. 

And the cost of lightening metals, of using the rays for medical purposes, is so min- 
ute as to be almost negligible. 

The odic-activity ray, according to Prof. HoUingshead, so far has successfully 
changed the weight of metal over 100 times in as many tests; it has caused hard clay to 
explode the instant the ray touched it; rock, opaque to the eye, has been made transparent 
and by means of the ray, an actual photograph has been taken through a solid sheet of 
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yond the possibility of ever becoming heated. And it has instantly changed water Into 
its primary gases — hydrogen and oxygen. 

But of all uses of the ray, including treatment for medical purposes, that of light- 
ening metals is the greatest, and will revolutionize the traffic of the world, 

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HARNESSING THE SUN-LIGHT FOR EFFICIENCY 

Compiled by the Author and With Compliments to His Contemporary, F. F. Burdick. 

"Your EFFICIENCY PROGRAMME will be the most delightful experience you have 
ever enjoyed. It wijll be equal to a mid-summer outing to your over-worked physical re- 
sources, and far more effective in its results. The LIGHT BATH is like fresh air and sun- 
shine to jaded nerves, fatigued muscles and poisoned blood. It brings the rest and recuper- 
ation, the tonic and exhilaration of the sea-side sunbath every day in the year — a continu- 
ous vacation. 

Light (sunshine) is the great germ destroyer, and when the electric light rays sHne 
directly upon the nude body, it kills not only the germs without but the germs within. Light 
with its warmingy healing powers opens the pores of the mind as well as of the body it 
cleanses not only the blood, but the heart it pulses through. The sun must be focused 
strongly enough on the body to bring out the poisons, to let in the vitalizing light 
to re-vivify and energize; not only to cure disease, but to maintain that equilibrium of 
body, mind and heart which we call NORMAL POISE. 

But our twentieth century civilization prohibits this. We are much too busy to take 
an hour off for the daily sunbath, and there is no place to take it if we had the time. But 
the need — the imperative need — of sufficient sunshine to bring' on a thorough sweat has 
not passed along with our modern habits. The question is, if we cannot get it in the ordi- 
nary way, what shall we do? 

Electric light bottled sumshine is the answer, for this is simply sunshine that has 
been stored for many centuries in the coal fields, waiting for your call and mine. 
Chemically, it is practically the same as sunlight, so nearly so that it has been successfully 
used to force the growth of plants. 

With an Electric Light Bath Cabinet in your home you can get well and keep well. 
It is always ready without preparation. Enter the Cabinet, turn the switch, and sit quietly 
enjoying the luxury of the sunshine sweat. Your head is out and you breathe in the cool, 
fresh air. The vitalizing Light rays brighten the eye, soften and beautify the skin of the 
fair sex and "put spring in the heel." 

The results are immediate. The first bath clears the brain, relieves nerve and muscle 
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disappear, the sleep is refreshing, the digestion normal, and life takes on a new meaning — 
the real joy of living. 

The family physician is always glad to recommend the Light Bath for maladies com- 
mon to every home— the same as in the sanitarium or health institution. The Light Baths 
develop the resisting powers of the body, and thereby prevent disease." 

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A WORD OF APPRECIATION 

As the latest associate of Dr. E. J. Stevens' Research Institute, I am glad to add a word 
of appreciation. From Scandinavia, where I studied in Stockholm, Christiania and Copen- 
hagen, my intuition led me through New York, Chicago, Battle Creek and Kirksville — ^the 
home of Osteopathy — to E. J. Stevens' Light and Color Institute in San Francisco. In all 
my researches I have found no higher ideas in modern therapeutics than Dr. Stevens' meth- 
ods. He not only rea-izes, but carries into practice, the combination of the mental, physical, 
and spiritual principles, and it is upon this triangle that all healing rests. 

GUDRUN FRIIS-HOLM, D. 0., M. D. 

Gudrun Friis-Holm, M. D., D. 0., the 1921 attendant-consultant physician of the E. J. 
Stevens Light and Color Institute, and Dr. Howard G. Ellis, in charge of the mens' Electro- 
Mechano depaKments, have directly and co-operatively, with other members of our faculty 
staff rendered invaluable aid in demonstrating the marvelous and seemingly miraculous 
uses of the colored lights and the bottled sun-light applications for the different classes of 
erroneous, inharmonious physical and mental conditions, termed "disease" dis-ease (cor- 
rectly meaning lack of ease). 

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"FLASHLIGHTS" BY THE AUTHOR. 

Those who believe and receive, cai conceive and achieve. 

This is the golden age of opportunity and of constructive optimism. 

A current of thought is a stream of passing electrons. Highlj^ evolved electrons pro- 
duce harmonious waves, as in the case of i^Itra-violet, actinic X-rays, and so on up through 
the invisible color-realms. The higher the vibration! frequency the shorter and more 
potential the wave length. 

All expressions of art, including languages, are thought vibrations and inventions. 
Even reflections in the mind and in a material sense — those which we observe in the water 
— originate in the soul, and when manifested are registered on the ether, some of which 
are observable ; while the deeper, finer thought vibrations aroi simply discernible things. 



CHAPTER XI 



FOURTH DIMENSION AND EINSTEIN^S THEORY OF RELATIVITY OF TIME, 

SPACE AND LINES 

Taken from "The World's Almanac" 

It is Dr., Einstein who has brought the fourth dimension into physics as a vital fact. 
In addition to length, breadth aEd height of the old order, one now takes account of the 
time-dimension as the new fourth coordinate. Time and space are no longer treated as 
independent. The relativist claims that we can know nothing of absolute space in the 
Euclidean sense of a line that goes on and on straight into eternity and infinity. The 
material universe moves in perfect cycles; the system of which we are a part move through 
a cycle of sixteen million light-years; at the end of that period it recommences its long 
journey and, like the recurring decimal, repeats it over and over. 

Energy is identical with mass ; energy may be said to create this material world ; and 
the doctrine of conservation of energy becomes merged in the doctrine of conservation of 
mass. It is here that the relativist seems most surely to have planted his feet on solid 
ground. He has the undoubted facts about electrons in his support. Proceeding from 
the dictum is identical with latent energy, he formulates a new law that mass is not invari- 
able, that mass actually receives an increment that varies with the square of the ratio of 
the body's velocity of light. In astronomy this strange doctrine has already been decis- 
ively confirmed. The most interesting thing about relativity is that there is so much in 
Nature to confirm it. 

Some accouEt is here given of the three great astronomical tests of the theory; of 
these the first two have been satisfactorily met: (1) The authors of accepted astro i^omical 
tables have been obliged to add an arbitrary constant, 43 minutes, to the centennial motion 
of Mercury's perihelion in order to secure agreement between the old Newtonian theory 
and telescopic observation. This discrepancy was a hopeless puzzle till Einstein an- 
nounced the law of mass varying with velocity and computed from this law a correction 
of 42 miEutes, or within one second of the true. Mercury attains a velocity of thirty-five 
miles per second and is by far the most rapidly moving body in the solar system. (2) Ein- 
stein predicted that if stars be observed when they are close to the sun's limb, the light com- 



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ing from the stars to the earth would be bent by the gravitational pull of the sun; stars 
at the limb would appear displaced outwardly from the sun by 1.75 minutes; stars some 
distance away from the limb would be displaced inversely as the distance from the centre 
of the sun^s disk. Such observatioirs can be made onfy at the time of a total solar eclipse. 
Einstein's success in solving the problem of Mercury had greatly interested British astrono- 
mers. The prediction as to the bending of light was in the nature of a challenge^; since it 
presented a! clear-cut issue. The Newtonian law of gravitation led one to expect a dis- 
placement of 0.87 minutes. Einstein predicted twice as much or 1.75 minutes. 

Two astronomiical expeditions went from England to observe the total eclipse of 
May 29 f 1919, one to Sobrai, in Brazil, the other to Principe, in the Gulf of Guinea. The 
one expedition secured 1.98 minutes as the result; the other 1.61 minutes; both are very 
strongly confirmatory of Einstein. (3) In an intense gravitational field like that of the sun 
all lines of the spectrum should be displaced to the^ red. This displacement has not yet 
been found. 

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THE NOURISHING SUNSHINE 

In Volume IV of the "Pharmacal Advance" the following statement is made under the 
heading, "Is Sunshine a Food?": 

"It is remembered that in *Gulliver*s Travels" there is depicted a race who were so for- 
tunate as to possess professors bent upon the exquisite task of extracting sunshine from 
cucumbers, which, after all, is what most of us are doing when we utilize the sun's ray^ by 
consuming the frui!s and vegetables, which are the storehouses of the sun's heat. 

Fabre in his work, *The Life of the Spider," makes the following observation upon tht 
species known as the Narbonne Lycosa, in which there occurs another form of this process, 
sunlight beiifg the only *food' consumed by the young of this species during the first few 
months of their existence. Let us briefly retell this interesting zoological episode. 

When the Lycosa's brood are hatched, the tiny creatures, to the number of many 
scores or even hundreds swarm upon the mother's back, and if there be considerable press- 
ure upon the available space, they may cover nearly the whole of the body, though the eyes 
of the mother are invariably left uncovered. The young Lycosa are agile and even acrobatic 
in a marked degree. As the mother moves about, numbers of the little ones are shaken or 
otherwise detached from their lofty perch, whereupon they race after their parent, and with 
indescribable ease scale her legs, and once more enscoiice themselves in some unstable posi- 
tion among their sisters and brothers. For a period of something like six months thei will- 
ing beast of burden carries about her family until, now beyond the need of apron strings, 
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young are extremely active and agile. They are racing and scrambling about incessantly. 
Now, so long as their dwelling-place is the mother's back, that is for the first six months of 
their life, two remarkable circumstances are to be observed. First, they do not grow. 
When they leave the maternal whereabouts to carve out a career for themselves they are no 
bigger — they are indeed slightly smaller — ^than when they were bom. Second, and more 
remarkable still, during the whole of the period, about six months, remember — of their 
proximity to the parent's person, they consume no food. There can be no doubt as to these 
extraordinary facts. The closest observations, and the most exacting experiments that can 
be devised only confirm these incredible findings. There is no possibility, for example, that 
they imbibe nourishing juices exuded from the mother's pores. You may rule out every 
such imagined possibility, and accept as an established fact an absolute fast extending from 
birth until the time of leaving the mother at the age of six or even seven months. Consider 
this fact in conjunction with' the first, namely, the absence of growth. Having no new 
tissue to form the only ^food' they require is such as shall be expended in the production of 
that energy which, as we have seen, is so freely dissipated in their constant climbings and 
racings to and fro. Fabre's hypothesis is that such energy is supplied by the sun's rays, and 
that the young of the Lycosa possess the rare power of directly converting those rays. 

If this is true for one species, it would seem that sunshine gives to us something more 
than light and heat. 

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MUSIC BATHS 

Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons. You will find it is to the 
sou! what a bath is to the body. Music elevates and tends to maintain the tone of one's 
mind. Seek, therefore, every clean opportunity for hearing it. Purchase some kind of an 
instrument for the home and see that its beneficent harmonies are often heard. Let music 
be as much a part of a day's routine as eating or reading or working. — Dr. Oliver Wendell 
Holmes. 

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ATOMS AND ELECTRONS. 

Atoms are 300 millionth part of an inch in size, and there are 2000 electrons in the 
smallest of atoms of the hydrogen, the smallest ultra-microscopic infinitessimal residue 
of anything. 

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REALIZATION 
1. 

When thy thoughts come forth in truth, love and power 

In trial and tribulation, 
Dos't thou not know, dear soul, it's thy glorious hour 

Of a conscious realization? 

2. 

When to hear and heed the soul's still small voice 
May mean thy transformation; 

Then treat all deep thoughts as thy guests of choice 
And conscious realization. 

3. 

Be silent, and list to that voice within — 
The voice of consecration; 
For to feel and unfold new thoughts— to win — 
Is a conscious realization. 

4. 

When thou cans't see, and fee! and serve above 

Mere duty's expectation, 
And act from faith, and joy, and purest love — 

This is divine realization. 

5. 

To live the life of joy, and youth, and health 

Without a limitation, 
And create high thoughts from thy soul's great wealth. 

Is a supreme realization. 

6. 

0! 'tis great to know, and know that we know 

The soul's aspiration; 
And to reap witH:i us the thought once sown; 

'Tis a conscious realization. 



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7. 

When thy golden thread of high thoughts are spun 

Into loving incarnation, 
Dos't thou see thy souPs brightest rays of sun 

In a divine realization? 

8. 

When the soul's trysting time for thee has come, 

In the spirit's visitation, 
Speak words of truth and love for victories won 

Through a Divine realization. 

. E. J. Stevens. 

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SENSE VIBRATIONS 

Through the law of development, we can register more and more vibrations. At pres- 
ent the average for the race consciousness for Sound is fourteen octaves; Taste averages 
several octaves; Smell averages several octaves. Some human beings can see Tone and hear 
Colors. Then there is the registering by Touch for distinguishing Colors. While all Colors 
possess their positives and negatives, black is the combination of all the negatives and the 
absorption of all the colors. White is the universally preferred color combination for it 
expresses a higher form of vibration. All colors that glow are positive. 

ASTRAL AND ODIC FORCES 

Abiding within your physical body, and related to your mental body, are strange 
races of beings, connected with the astral world. What, for example, causes the beating 
of your heart and the pumping of your blood? Your stomach and liver perform their func- 
tions, you say "automatically." What causes the breath of life to move in and out mysteri- 
ously? Get acquainted with the astral-psychic and odic forces, and learn they control 
every organ, every internal as well as external sense "far inside your body, where now your 
thoughts seldom venture." 

Amazing facts re;lative to forms, sound, light, colors and harmonious success are ex- 
plained in Vol. II of "Vibrations, Their Principles; Colors, Their Uses," now in preparation. 

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The light of knowledge is philosophic, and little, narrow, restricted knowledge is 
bigotted and hateful. — R. G. Ingersoll. 



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SLEEP AND REST 

The author recently discovered by actual experimentation upon himself and then with 
a student by the name of J. F. Lynas, that when the nervous system is in a depleted condi- 
tion the reclining position of the body elevated several feet above the floor surface, with 
the head and feet running north and south, brought a remarkably satisfactory result, par- 
ticularly when there was a complete relaxation of body and mind. The non-tension of 
conscious brain-thought, when reclining, as stated above, brought undisturbed and restful 
sleep. 

It is well to realize that a current of air passing through long, straight sea-island cotion 
is unobstructed and easily inhaled, whereas the short, choppy variety, as sold in drug stores 
of the hospital brand, is unsatisfactory as a vehicle for carrying the air current 

The principles as described above are also truly demonstrated when the line of least 
resistance is followed out in relation to the currents of life-renewing forces, when we place 
our inner or greater selves in tune with the harmonious rules of Mother Nature. 

Another important recipe for putting a person at ease, as a preventive remedy to 
dis-ease, is going into repose, or what is less appropriately termed "going into the silence." 
The latter involves a negative condition, whereas repose involves a control and poise of the 
outer and inner forces. The formula is to focus the highest colored spiritual forces of the 
blue-to-violet triad upon the great brain centers of life, like the solar plexus, the thyroid and 
the pelvic brains, and suggest — ^if not advise — these auxiliary centers {to co-operate in a 
quiet,inspirational way with the upper cranial brain of conscious thought Great results 
will follow this very early morning practice, which should again be experierced at least once 
during the day time or a few minutes the last thing before retirsng at night. We may go 
still further by lovingly requesting each vital organ and system, especially those negative 
conditions (error, inharmony, dis-ease, which involve twisting and short-circuiting 
vibrations) to co-operate in moving a little higher toward the brighter colors of clean, 
strong thought. Thus we can use the central light of intelligence, located at the solar 
plexus and reaching up to the top of the brain, after the fashion of a lighthouse station. 

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ASTRAL AND ODIC FORCES 

The purest and most benefidal magnetism is that which comes from the spiritual 
source, flowing naturally through the mental and loving natures, manifesting itself through 
a responsive physical nature in sympathy or tune with its spiritual source — which, in the 
last analysis, is the source of all magnetism. 



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MOTION AND MUSIC 

Before Mother Eve*s enchanting form and musical voice attracted her elder partner; 
long before the soaring sea gulls sang, while kissing the surface of the rolling ocean; long 
before the curtain of thought was drawn upon our young planet's stage of action; and, I 
reckon, long, long before the twinkling stars of our solar system held their first concert 
around our new moon; away back before the grey hairs appeared upon the hoary head 
of Father Time, the Love Nature of the great Spirit of Intelligence created the rhythm of 
life by implanting the color seeds of motion and music in the soul of all things. Music 
comes from the soul, and love is its nature. We hear it through the gentle falling rain; 
we hear it through the great ocean waves ; we hear it from the tones of the wind whistling 
through the pines; we hear it through the rippling streams as well as from the surging surf 
and in the the peals of thunder; we hear music in the cooing of the dove as well as in the 
cackling of the mother hen. We hear it from a thousand musical instruments as well as 
from the nature-formed crystaline cave formation, for I heard its melodious tones of 
''Home, Sweet Home'' in the world-famed crystaline pipe organ at Luray Caverns. I heard 
it in the great cathedrals of Europe. Whoi has not heard it in the laughter of children? 
I have heard it in the melodious songs of our Southern pickaninnies; I have heard it in the 
whip-poor will, the meadow lark, the cricket and the buzzing of bees ; also the tenor tones 
of gentle lambs and the basso calls of the lion and the ox. From the tiny reeds and jews- 
harps of school-boy days as well as from the sweet singer of Israel's harp^ the air vibrates 
with the tones of music. The human soul is an organ of a myriad notes. The man who 
has not music developed is unnatural, Shakespeare says ; "he is fit for treason and spoils." 
Pope says "Music the fiercest grief can charm, music can soften pain." Without the music 
of love, there would be no Romeos and Juliets, for this charming vibration of music cheers 
the human, tames the animal and brings peace and joy to the weary soul. Let us, dear 
reader, keep in tune with the rhythm of the spheres. 

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RADIUM, THE GREAT RADIO ACTIVE SUBSTANCE. 

It is the product of its parent substance, uranium. Radium is ordinarily obtained, 
says the Geological Survey, "from the ores of hydrate sulphate, chloride or bromide." 
These white substances are in appearance similar to "common salt" or chalk. The author 
possesses a very small tube of this radio-active substance. 

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What makes the red sunsets? The red rays being the slowest moving bright colors, 
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PRIMARY COLORS 

The colors of the spectrum are givei^ as seven — violet, indigo, blue, green, yellow, 
orange, red. These are frequently called primary colors, but in a stricter sense the primary 
octave colors are three in number, red, green and blue. These three colors cannot be 
resolved into any others, while a yellow ray, for instance, can be resolved into red and 
green, or can be produced by mingling a red and green light, consequently red is not now 
regarded by scientific men as a primary color. Inasmuch as a yellow and blue pigment 
will always produce green when mixed, red, yellow and blue may still be regarded in a 
sense as primary colors. In a scientific sense white and black are not considered colors, 
in short, there are three primary colors and seven colors in the spectrum. 

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MENTAL COLOR TREATMENT 

''Mental treatment of the right sort is always beneficial and it can certainly greatly aug- 
ment the good results accruing from a judicious employment of light and color; but this 
fact in no way invalidates the unimpeachable testimony of scientific experimentalists to the 
actual value of chromopathic treatment. It is very important to always bear in mind that 
the colors employed must be agreeable to patients or the best results will not follow their 
employment, because the human mind always largely influences results.'^ 

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LIFE AND RELATIVITY 

The ''Little'' atom world is within its mighty cell, and within the encircling world-atom 
are thousands of electrons moving at relatively great distances apart in an amazingly intelli- 
gent manner, representing life's divine forces as individualizing and manifesting in cell 
intelligence. Life must surely be the intelligent dance of the electrons. 

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GREEN LEAVES AND GRASSES 

Grass and leaves are green because of their chlorophyl, which has the property of 
absorbing red rays and of reflecting the yellow and blue, which mixes and produces green, 

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VIBRATIONS OF LIGHT 

Think love, eat love, drink love, breathe love, feel love, and be love ; for it is the ori- 
gin, the source and substance of all Life, and Light and Color. 



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WORLD'S FAIR RECOGNITION 

San Francisco, Calif., Jan. 2, 1916. 

E. J. Stevens, M. S., Ph. D., 

Stevens Health Inventions Co. 

Pacific Coast Headquarters, 212 Stockton Street, City. 
Dear Dr. Stevens: — 

Now that the Panama-Pacific International Exposition has closed its gates, I person- 
ally wish to express to you how grateful I am at having your Company as an exhibitor. 
Your splendid exhibit has proven a source of interest and benefit to thousands of visitors, 
and has materially aided in the great success this Exposition has enjoyed. 

The interest manifested in your display which we have had the honor to house in 
this Palace, has brought many flattering remarks, and it is firms like yours that have made 
possible the wonderful success of the Department of Liberal Arts. 

Permit me to further express my warm appreciation of the courteous manner in 
which your exhibit has beeni conducted, which is a credit not only to your manager and 
staff of nurses, but also to the foresight and judgment which first prompted you to exhibit 
at the Exposition. 

Wishing you continued success. 

Yours truly, 

(Signed) THEODORE HARDEE, 

Chief of Liberal Arts. 

N. B. — This letter was followed by a handsomely engraved diploma, signed by Presi- 
dent Moore and his staff, accompanied by an engraved gold medal awarded for "Personal 
Services Rendered,'' in daily lecturing, treating and healing thousands of people gratui- 
tously for six months. This was quite distinct from the fifteen highest medal awards for 
the fifteen Stevens Scientific and Health Inventions. A staff of seven nurse aids were en- 
gaged daily at our free clinics given at this exhibit, and where balsam supplies were served 
out. Three hundred lectures were delivered on the Psychology of Health, Beauty and 
Happiness by the author. 

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THE BLUE SKY, OCEAN AND LAKES 

The white sun-light falls upon the earth and is reflected back again to the sun ; as it 
penetrates the atmosphere portions of it are again returned to the earth. A polarization 
of light is produced by this double reflection, which imparts to our vison the motion repre- 
sented as blue. The ocean and lakes are blue because of their reflecting nature. 



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\IT THERE BE LIGHT' 




S)me{o^ment S^y^tem, mciudin^ t^^i^Tnun ^y^^naf/ifm, ^o/o^ ^sy^c^oio^y^, (^/ect^c-^yMa^netic 
and ^oion iy^^i^dcatlans 





^Pe (Jteiie^ore fecommenJ to (lit ^uUi^, a ^raduaie daid i!Jniiiiute anet S^y<Uem. 

3tt HHitltPfia ®t|?rfnf« AerewHA a/^li our di^naturei iAe dai^ , „ : tAe 

yMtt xJ. ^. /^J _ 



A PROFESSIONAL EVIDENCE OF KNOWLEDGE AND EFFICIENCY 

The above is a fac-simile, in miniature form, of the diploma issued to the students of 
the E. J. Stevens Light and Color Institute and Research Studios of San Francisco, Calif., 
who complete the prescribed course and are competent to practice the art of Color Appli- 
cations, Zone Therapeutics, and other Natural Methods. 



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SIXTEEN QUALIFICATIONS 

For E. J. Stevens Issuing a Certificate or Diploma to Special Course Students at the 
Stevens Light and Color Institute. 

1. — Researcher, writer, instructor, inventor. 

2. — Received two diplomas and one certificate and the highest world awards on fifteen 

scientific and health inventions at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San 
Francisco. 

3. — ^Delivered over 200 lectures on scientific and health topics in 1915. 

4. — Three highest international awards on fifteen scientific and health instruments and 

outfits. 

5. — Held over 100 public demonstrating exhibits in three continents on health of body 

and mind. 

6. — Was on Faculty as instructor. Department of Science at the Bible College, Philadel- 

phia. 

7. — Instructor in physical culture department at and received a certificate in the Battle 

Creek Sanitarium. 

8. — Won three national records for deep breathing and development of lung capacity. 

9. — Received medals and certificates of praise from the American Institute of Awards and 

the International Inventors' Organization. 

10. — Have college and university diplomas. 

11. — Taken 10 courses within ten years on various branches of science and psychology. 

12. — Sent with a selected party to Europe for one year to teach health principles, etc., by 

the Battle Creek Sanitarium. 

13. — Completed Professor MiDiken's special Electronic Course at the University of Cali- 

fornia. 

14. — Completed Baron Person's two courses on the taws of vibrations and healing. 

15. — President and Manager of the Stevens Light and Color Institute and the Stevens 

Health Inventions Company, which was incorporated under the Blue Sky laws of 
California. 

16. — Vice President of the Bidd'e Physical Culture organization of about 200,000 men. 



APPENDIX 



INTRODUCTORY 

The writer became interested in Colors while in the Southland, at Lily Dale, our Vir* 
S^nian homestead; and as a student in Oil Painting; and as a graduating student in Bac- 
teriology under Paul Paquin of the Pasteur Institute, who was an associate scientist of Pas- 
teur in Paris; in studying Music and Harmony; and in Color Therapeutics in connection 
with the private research laboratory of the Stevens Light and Color Institute,^ and at his 
time I find a great and growing demand for Light and Color knowledge by students of all 
branches of science, religion and art, and in fact by all thinking people regardless of school 
of science or religion. 

In Vol. II, "Vibrations, Their Principles; Light and Colors, Their Uses," several chap- 
ters are devoted to the Spectrum Analysis, Incandescent, Solids and Terrestial and Celes- 
tial Chemistry, the Ultra Rays and Radio-activity, Solar and Stellar Color Influences on 
Human Life, etc., the Solar System within us. Use of the Prism, the Spectroscope, etc. Still 
other chapters of great interest and practical value to progressing students will be treated. 

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MY JUNE, 1921, VISIT TO LUTHER BURBANK 

(I Had Previously Visited His Gardens) 

As I consider Luther Burbank to be at least one of the foremost authorities on Vibra- 
tions, Lights and Colors, the following practical information will not be amiss in this 
Appendix, wHch is a result of Mr. Burbank's personal invitation to the writer. 

The meeting of the world's greatest living benefactor and renowned scientist, Luther 
Burbank, at his private residence in a personal way, was not simply valuable from the 
standpoint of making his acquaintance, but the results of such a meeting with a special 
object in view — relative to desired information on Light and Colors — was and is greatly 
appreciated by the author. 

I am more than grateful for valuable points of scientific interest secured June 20, 1921, 
while on the long-desired meeting with Luther Burbank, and to have him personally show 
me over his modern Garden of Eden. 



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Luther Burbank is a household name throughout the civilized worlds because of 
his wonderful creations^ — the Burbank Potatoes; the Burbank new Plums; the Bur- 
bank Cactus Plant Food and Cactus Fruits; the Stoneless Prunes; the Primus Berry; 
the Spineless Cactus; the large^ different colored^ luscious Loganberries; Burbank Red 
Tomato (earliest^ largest, smoothest) ; Burbank Sunberiy ; Burbank Hybrid Lemon Cucum- 
bers (white and green); Burbank Giant Sunflower; Burbank Elephant Garlic-Onion; 
Burbank Giant Hybrid Artichoke; the Burbank Tiger Lily; Burbank Poppies of assorted 
colors; Burbank Giant Primrose ("as large as a handkerchief"); Burbank Giant Dahlias- 
Zimmiar; also many grasses, grains, shrubs, trees and nuts. The Burbank Walnut, a hy- 
brid between a light colored English Walnut and what is known as the Black American 
Walnut, the trees of which are raised primarily for their lumber. Mr. Burbank informed 
the writer that the trees were very valuable. He had recently received orders for ten mil- 
lion small trees from the Southwest and that the demand for years was greater than he 
could supply. The growth of thisi walnut is very much faster than the uncivilized walnut 
tree. We were also shown the gigantic Shasta Daisies and many other marvelous Burbank 
productions. Mr. Burbank informed the writer that he was at this particular time experi- 
menting with 6000 selections in his Santa Rosa gardens and Sonoma farms. 

At his Sebastopol farms are his cultures of trees, shrubs, grasses and grains; here you 
will find the large, luscious Loquats, the Brambles, the California Currants, the Aaron Herbs 
and many others, representing all the colors of the rainbow. Last but not least will men- 
tion here, that while it took hundreds of years for the Indians to develop' from the wild 
grass of the plains the white and yellow grains of corn by crude cultivation, the wizard 
Burbank has developed the teosinte grass seeds, by careful and successful cultivation 
through the marvelously short period of eighteen years (commencing in the year 1903), 
the present prodigious golden grains of corn. We surely live in the age of miracles. 

While at his residence, the principles of Light and Color were explained in connection 
with large varieties of flowers photographed in color. He gently reminded his visitor that 
his photo color artist had recently received a million dollars for his coloi^ photograph inven- 
tion. After a most delightful stay at the Burbank home, this master of Nature escorted the 
writer and a student friend over his gardens. He described! the various colored cactus 
flowers and fruits, which were ripening in his field of cactus bushes, several of which he pi*^, 
sented to me to send to my sisters, who live in Battle Creek and Boston, the seeds of which 
they could forward to my brothers residing in Virginia, North Carolina and New York State. 
Before Mr. Burbank had plucked these fine specimens of his most evolved and what he 
termed "civilized" cactus fruit, he very kindly served us with a cactus-fruit refreshment. 
After basking in the beauties of his flower, seed and vegetable gardens, we returned to one 
of the garden houses, where Mr. Burbank polished the choice specimens of red and orange^ 



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pink cactus fruits and then prepared the can-package for mailing to my sisters. There was 
also a sample of the spineless cactus-fruity not yet fully evolved, a fruit with a remnant of 
almost invisible prickly points, and as some of these stuck into our fingers the good Samari- 
tan — Mr. Burbank — came to our aid with bis vest-pocket supply of sandpaper. He said : 
"No one knows how many nights for many years I have stayed awake, hours at a time, 
sandpapering the tiny burrs from my hands.'' We then visited the seed-mailing and tool 
department and received samples of the Burbank Garlic-Onion, after which we returned 
to his residence. 

BURBANK'S LIFE VIBRATIONS—YOUTH AND FRIENDS 

While in conversation relative to his wonderful spectra-colored productions of trees, 
vegetables, fruits and flowers, Mr. Burbank remarked that as everything is connected with 
vibrations, he had studied closely the principles and laws of light and colors for a number 
of years, in fact, ever since he came to California ("land of flowers"), nearly forty years 
ago, a State which has given him the encouragement to enjoy an out-of-door, healthy 
life the year around. He came from the East suffering from poor health whem he was a 
young man under forty years of age. Since that time he has had the best of health and 
continues to enjoy activity of body as well as mind. He is still too active to be stout, and 
talks like he walks — in a deliberate and poised manner. Although seventy-five this 
year, he demonstrated his agility to the author in his spacious parlor by going through some 
physical culture exercises, among wbich he turned several complete somersaults, backward 
and forward, in a manner as graceful and active as a modern university "gym" student. 
He surely has not allowed the old-age dis-ease ("error") germ to take possession of him. 
Mr. Burbank spoke in the highest terms of our mutual friends in the human development 
and natural health lines — Dr. J. H. Kellogg of Battle Creek, Mich., and Paul Von Boeck- 
man of New York City. The former had paid him several race betterment and social vis- 
its, and the latter he knew through correspondence. He also referred! to the visits of his 
great friend, Edison, who was his guest for several days during the Panama-Pacific Inter- 
national Exposition. We were shown the framed photograph of "Nature's two foremost 
Natural Scientists" — Edison and Burbank — as they were photographed with their two 
wonderful heads touching in a friendly and graceful manner. This large portrait hung 
on his library wall, above his private desk. 

Before leaving the residence of Mr. Burbank, he handed the writer a token of his 
friendship in the form of a couple of his smaller literary productions, and on the front page 
of one he wrote (no doubt as a courteous result of reading the author's "California, the 
Super-Empire," by a Virginian) the following sincere and reiterated statement: 



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"June 20, 192L 
Santa Rosa. 

Dear Dr. Stevens: — 

I would rather live on a piece of land the size of a graveyard lot in California, than 
to own any other STATE in the Union.'' 

LUTHER BURBANK. 

In reply to my request that I would like to use this written statement, particularly in 
my forthcoming "History of California in Verse," he stated he had no objection. 

BURBANK'S REMARKABLE COLOR-CHANGING EXPERIMENTS 

The reader has, no doubt, witnessed the change of color in the eyes of some individ- 
uals, and how in an instant certain reptiles have the power to change the color-radiance 
on the surface of their skins — ^the chameleon, for example. The same forces of thought — 
or should wei call it instinct? — are at work within the plant life. On June 20th, 1921, 
Luther Burbank showed the author, in his experimental gardens in Santa Rosa, how he 
could immediately produce inflammation, or an angry red color, by shocking a certain 
variety of his "dviK^ing" cactus, by dashing cold water over these desert natiire plants. 
He called the author's special attention to the fact that some of these particular species 
could "blush" more than others and would respond to the effect of cold water vibration 
quicker than did those of a more matured and older cactus. 

In the larger field of cactus referred to previously, which he was developing, he 
showed three prominent varieties, containing large, edible cactus fruit of three different 
colors — orange, yellow and ruby red. Mr. Burbank remarked to the author that the cactus 
fruit upon which he has been working for 35 years, together with some of his other experi- 
ments, have cost him half a million dollars. He mertioned the fact that the yellow or yel- 
lowish red varieties had been found unusually fine as laxatives. The fruit is not only very 
nourishing and enjoyable, but par excellence as an acid antidote. He related as an exam- 
ple how a judge, who was suffering very severely with acidosis, was unable to hold court. 
The judge seemed to have had an idea that the cactus fruit, not being acid, might strength- 
en him if he ate of it He did partake of a portion and noticed almost instantaneous re- 
lief, so much so that he was enabled to continue court proceedings with tranquility of mind 
and body. Mr. Burbank continued: "I find this to be true of those who are taking it to 
neutralize the acid conditions of the alimentary tract." 

I trust the readers of this page will spread this information, together with that of the 
experiments the writer made with the use of the electric light blue^to-violet or even the 



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light yellow colored glass globes for relieving acid conditions. See chapter in my "Vibra- 
tions, Their Principles; Light and Colors, Their Uses," Vol. I, on my experiments. 

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COLOR THOUGHTS AND FORMS 

Taken From Luther Burbank's "Fundamental Principles of Plant Breeding/' 
Written Among the Heights of the Sierras. 

We have more lately discovered that no two plants are ever exactly alike, each one 
having its own individuality, and that new Vcirieties have endowments of priceless value, 
and even distinct new species can be produced by the plant breeder with the same precision 
that machinery for locomotion and other useful purposes are produced by the mechadlc 

Plant-breeding is in its earliest infancy. Its possibilities, and even its fundamental 
principles, are understood but by few; in the past it has been mostly dabbling with tre- 
mendous forces, which have been only partially appreciated, and it has yet to approach the 
precision which we expect in the handling of steam or electricity. And, notwithstanfing 
the occasional sneers of the ignorant, these silent forces, embodied in plant-life, have yet 
a part to play in the regeneration of the racej, which by compeirison will dwarf into* insig- 
nificance the services which steam and electricity have so far given. 

The results now secured by the breeder will be in proporiion to the accuracy and 
intensity of selection, and the length of time they are applied. By these means the best of 
fruits, grains, nuts and flowers are capable of still further improvements in ways which to 
the thoughtless often seem unnecessary, irrelevant, or impossible. 

The plant-breeder is an explorer into the Infinite. He will have "No time to make 
money," and bJs castle — the brain — must be cleeir and alert in throwing aside fossil ideas 
and rapidly replacing them with living, throbbing thought followed by action. Then, and 
not till then, shall he create marvels of beauty, and value must be produced by the intelli- 
gent application of the forces of Nature which are always awaiting our commands. 

And who can estimate the elevating and refining influence and moral value of flowers, 
with all their graceful forms and bewitching shades and combinations of colors and exquis- 
itely varied perfumes? These silent influences are unconsciously felt even by those who 
do not appreciate them consciously, and thus, with better and still better fruits, nuts, 
grains and flowers, will the earth be transformed, men's thoughts turned from the base, 
destructive forces into the nobler productive ones, which will lift him to higher planes of 
action toward that happy day when man shall off^er his brother man, not bul'ets and bayo- 
nets, but richer grains, better fruits and fairer flowers. 

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and insect pests; fruits without stones, seeds or spines; better fibre, tea, sugar, 
and flavors, with more nutrients and less waste, and with every injurious and poisonous 
quality eliminated, and with power to resist sun, wind, rain, frost and destructive fungus, 
spice, rubber, oil, paper and timber trees, and sugar^ starch, color and perfume plants. 
Every one of these, and ten thousand more, are within the reach of the most ordinary skill 
in plant-breeding. 

Among these dizzy heights of rock, ice-cleft, glacier-plowed and water-worn, wa 
stand face to face with th© first and latest pages of world creation, for now we see also 
tender and beautiful flowers, adding grace of form and color to the grisly walls, and far 
away down the slopes stand the giant trees, oldest of all living things, embracing all human 
history ; but even their lives are but a watch-tick since the stars first shone on these barren 
rocks, before the evolutive forces had so gloriously transfigured the face of our planet 
home, 

THOU SHALT NOT KILL 

The author asked Luther Burbank how he found time to write books, as well as to keep 
up with his manifold experimentations. He quickly replied that he used up his scraps of 
time while he was traveling and while he was going to and from work. He added that 
whenever an inspirational thought came to him he jotted it down on any scrap of paper he 
could find, after which these scraps of writing were transcribed by his secretary. The 
higher lights and co!ors of intelligence unfold, develop and grow by this method of pat- 
ronizing the golden grains of opportunity, which, perhaps, ninety-nine out of every hun- 
dred lose, by killing their best friend — "Time." 

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF SISTER^S CACTUS-FRUIT PRESENT 
FROM LUTHER BURBANK 

51 Queensbury St., Boston, Mass., 
June 29, 1921. 

Dearest Ernest: 

The parcel post package, containing the cactus (spineless) fruit received, and I 
hasten to tell you that it has a wonderful flavor, and the coloring is beautiful. It is juicy 
and refreshing on a hot day. Am forwarding the seeds to Virginia. 

Your visit to Luther Burbank will be an inspiration to your work (research), as there 
is so much in common between you. Affectionately, 

EDITH. 



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SUPER-AFFIRMATIONS 

I believe in Humanity. 
I believe in the God of Love. 
1 believe in the Divine Intelligence. 
I believe in the Old and New Bibles. 
I believe in the School of Intuition. 
I believe in the Book of Life. 
I believe in the Book of Nature. 
I believe in the Universal Bible. 
I believe in my Greater Inner Self. 
I believe in an Aristocracy of Intelligence. 
I believe I am an Evolving Superman. 
I believe I am an Optimistic Pessimist. 
I believe I am a Son of God and a Sun of Intelligence. 
I believe in doing my own Thinking. 
I believe I can be what I want to be as an advanci ng SouL 
I believe there is Intelligence of some sort in all Living Things. 
I wou!d rather be a dean in the University of Iniuiive In!:elligence than be the presi- 
dent of the world's greatest university. 

I believe in working for Godliness and enjoying the Heaven within. 

I am the likeness of God. I wiU find the God Wiihin as well as Without. 

I am Health, Love and Eternal Youth. 

I believe that Expression deepens Impression. 

I believe Love is the inventor and creator of all things. 

I believe that individuality comes from the holy of holies wiihin the human soul, and 
this is found by traveling on the royal road of self-expression and service. 

o 

SCIENCE OF LINES AND FORMS 

Pythagoras believed in the vibratory science of lines and numbers. All lines are 
formed by certain thought forms, which must have been moulded from a certain intelli- 
gence; but remember that the lines of the heart and hand are of greater significance than 
the lines of your hands or palms or the bumps on your head. 

o 

Cleanliness is more than "next to Godliness," for it is Godliness. Perspiration, Respir- 
ation and Elimirafioi!, with c!can thoughts, spells CLEANLINESS AND HEALTH. 



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SOURCES OF MUSIC, VERSE AND INVENTION 

In the rich and sacred soil of the human soul, the spiritual intelligence pro- 
duces the flowers of pure music, true poetry, and good inventions, together with all 
the choice fruits of a great friendship, which are ripened and sweetened by a sunny disposi- 
tion. The soul isi the Garden of Sweet Song, the poef s trysting comer and the artist's 
odyllic studio. Silence is the gardener, and sacred silence, so close to Nature, is the parent 
of inspiration as conceived in friendship's womb and nourished by tone and sympathy. 

o 

ZONE THERAPY COLOR PRESCRIPTIONS FOR THE NERVES 

Red and pink — Nerve stimulating. 

Orange — Nerve animating. 

Yellow (sun color) — Nerve relaxing. 

Blue and violet — Nerve soothing. 

N. B. — Use the pure or true colors. — E. J. S. 

— — — — , 

PERPETUAL MOTION 

We should reafize and appreciate the fact that every thing is, more or less, in motion. 
This is true with the non-material — ^the mental and sipiritual — as well as the material things 
•f life. Although the sages of old informed us that every thing is in ''flux," yet it has only 
been of recent date that this knowledge has been generally accepted by intelligent people. 

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ZONES FOR RELAXATION OF MOTION 

By reclining and crossing the feet and bringing the hands together over the breast, or 
otherwise bringing the toes together and entwining the fingers with the two embraced 
hands placed behind the head, will induce relaxation and secure rest — from outer vibra- 
tions.. 

o 

Grow youth cells by always thinking of life in terms of youth and by avoiding risky and 
doubtful associations. 

. 0 

Creative radio-activity comes from the love-life radiating the spiritual urge. 



APPENDIX II 

ZONE THERAPEUTICS 

BREATHING VIBRATIONS, OR SCIENTIFIC BREATHING LESSONS 

For Use With or Without a Spirometer or the Stevens 
Breath Controller 

How can the art of breathings be maS;tered in the least time and with the least diffi- 
culty? The solution of this question will be found in the following pages. 

The first requirement for correct breathing and lung development is the proper car- 
riage of the body. This is rare. The great majority of the people have more or less bent 
spines and undeveloped lungs, and consequently they cannot possibly breathe correctly. 
The exercises given herewith, if perseveringly practiced, are sufficient for the acquirement 
of proper carriage, normal lung development and proper breathing, with all their attendant 
benefits. They have been specially prepared for this book by an expert, who was instruct- 
or at the largest health university on this planet — the Ba'.tle Creek Sanitarium — and are 
made as few in number and as simple as possible. It is not by practicing a large variety 
of exercises, but by assiduous work with a few properly selected movements that the 
desired results are to be attained. 

For the rapid development of the lungs, exercises and testing with the Breath Con- 
troller are of the! greatest value. With this appliance more can be accomplished in one 
month than could be gained in three without it. 

This Controller is a device for exercising the throat and lung muscles in particular 
and all of the muscles of the body in general, through breathing and measuring the 
amount of air which can be taken into and exhaled from the lungs. 

The following exercises have proven of greatest value in a wide range of ignorant 
or erroneous conditions, from the girl who has ^^bones'' in her chest to the man with the 
waxy pallor, the shrunken chest and the hacking cough, or those susceptible to catching 
colds or for weak or small lungs. 

LESSON ONE. 

EXERCISE No. 1. — Stand erect, heels together, toes out. Bend forward, and, with- 
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You will not at first be able to reach the toes with the finger tips, but it is not necessary 
that you should. The effort to do so will stretch the shortened ligaments and conduce to 
the correct position. 

EXERCISE No. 2. — Stand erect, knees, hips and chin back, chest raised. Without 
lifting heels, sway the body forward until the weight is on the balls of the feet. Then take 
a full breath, and, with head thrown back, raise the arms, palms forward, and stretch the 
whole body upward and forward, as if you were trying to reach the ceiling. 

EXERCISE No. 3. — Stand erect, feet about twelve inches apart. Take weight upon 
right foot, extend right hand upward, palm outward. Now take full breath, raise left foot 
from floor and stretch, trying to increase the distance between the right hand and left foot. 

EXERCISE No. 4. — This is the reverse of No. 3. Take weight on left foot, raise left 
hand and stretch as in previous exercise. 

EXERCISE No. 5. — Stand with right foot in advance as if taking a step. Take full 
breath. Then, raising right hand toward ceiling, palms forward, lift the left foot from the 
the floor and stretch upward and forward. 

EXERCISE No. 6.— Reverse of No. 5. 

LESSON TWO 
Breathing Is the Most Important Physkal Exercise 

EXERCISE No. 7. — Stand aa in Exercise No. 5, right foot in advance. Then, with 
weight on left foot, raise left arm up and backward, palm forward, lift right foot and 
stretch. 

The stretching exercise should always be followed by an exercise for relaxation. The 
best for general purposes is the following: 

EXERCISE No. 8. — Stand with feet well apart, whole body relaxed, arms hanging 
loosely. Now shake the body, only gently, using the least possible muscular exertion, until 
conscious of a feeling of general muscular relaxation and restfulness. This exercise may 
be varied by walking about, allowing the whole body to sway and sag, as if deeply intoxi- 
cated. This exercise, besides being a corrective of the tension Eable to result from the 
stretching and reaching exercises, is always restful, and frequently will relieve insomnia. 

EXERCISE No. 9. — Stand with feet together, hands gently clasped over abdomen. 
Inhale breath. Now, bend forward toward the floor, and at the same time allow the breath 
to escape. After the breath is all out, rise to the erect position, at the same time inhaling 
full breath. Repeat from four to eight times. 

EXERCISE No. 10. — Stand with feet together, arms extended straight at sides, palms 
forward. Now, keeping arms in the same position, slowly turn the body as on a pivot forward 
the right as far as possible, until the muscles of the trunk are firmly stretched. Then re- 



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verse the movement, turning toward the left as far around as possible. This is an incom- 
parable exercise for imparting strength to the muscles of the abdominal region and smaM 
of the back. 

It may be remarked in connection with these exercises, that many of those distressing 
disorders pecuHar to civilized womankind may be benefited by a projserly adapted course 
of stretching, posing and breathing gymnastics. 

LESSON THREE 

With a Spirometer or the Stevens Breath Controller 

BREATHING EXERCISE No. 1.— Stand erect,head and chest up,weight on balls of feet. 
Take the tube of the Controller between the lips. Now, inhale gently through the nose 
until the lungs are full of air. Then, without holding the breath, exhale steadily through 
the tube. Make a memorandum of the point on the dial at which the hand stops. This 
indicates the number of cubic inches of air which can be taken into and exhaled from the 
lungs. With most people it will be small at first. Gradually, as the lungs increase in power 
and capacity, the hand on the dial will register more and more, increasing a few inches each 
day until the normeil is reached. By this time the bent figure has straightened up, the 
muddy skin is clearer, the eyes brighter, the voice has an accustomed resonance, fits of de- 
pression, nervousness and langour disappear, and the individual knows an entirely new 
sense of energy and health. 

BREATHING EXERCISE No. 2. — Sit erect in an ordinary straight-backed chair, 
head back, chest raised, spine straight. Now take the mouthpiece of the Stevens Breath 
Controller between the lips and, with hands on the abdomen, inhale gently through the 
nose as in the preceding exercise. Note that first the waist and then the chest enlarges. 
As soon as the full capacity of the lungs has been reached, exhale with the same gentleness 
through the Controller and notice that first the chest, then the sides and back anil lastly the 
abdomen sinks. This is the normal breathing movement. It may be observed in animals 
and young children and in perfectly healthy adults. 

BREATHING EXERCISE No. 3.— Stand erect, feet together, weight forward. Place 
the mouthpiece of the Breath Controller between the lips and the hand upon the abdomen. 
Now inhale slowiy through the nose and hold the breath by closing the throat (as in pro- 
nouncing the word "ache"). Then, still holding the breath, lift the abdomen, reducing 
the size of the waist and forcing the air into the chest. Then allow the diaphragm and 
abdominal muscles to descend. Repeat this several times. Then slowly and steadily ex- 
hale through the Breath Controller. 

BREATHING EXERCISE No. 4. Stand erect, weight forward, head back, chest up, 
arms hanging easily. Place the mouthpiece of the Breath Controller between the lips and 



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take full, gentle inspiration, allowing first the abdomen and then the sides and chest to be 
filled by the inhaled air. Exhale in the same manner, occasionally testing the correctness 
of the action by placing one hand upon the chest and the other upon the abdomen, remem- 
bering that the first air inhaled should expand the waist. 

BREATHING EXERCISE No. 5. — Stand erect, as in the preceding exercise. Now, 
inhale very slowly until the full capacity of the lungs is reached, then gently exhale to the 
sound of sh as in the v/ord ''hush.'' This exercise is particularly valuable in the treatment 
of stuttering, stammering or huskiness of voice. 

These exercises should at first be practiced very gently, and should not be allowed to 
extend over five minutes at a time. If practiced as directec^ the inevitable result will be 
increase in the chest development and activity, and consequent health, strength and 
vitality. 

Q 

HEALING AIR BATH VIBRATIONS 

It is an accepted fact by intelligent people that the light and air baths are the most 
important of any class of baths for the health and comfort of an individual, and it is con- 
ceded by Science and Health Instructors and Healers that ''fresh,'' i. e., pure air (including 
light and, of course, the influence of a cheerful and willing mind) is Nature's method of 
cleansing and purifying the outer surface and the inner and outer passages of the human 
body, thus preventing and relieving ("curing") a long list of "ailments," errors or irregu- 
larities. This is the natural means by which the dirt and germs can be removed from the 
respiratory tract and the invisible air cells. Physicians and healers send their patients to 
the balsam or pine forests, where they build sanitariums. We can now secure and use the 
world's best balsams at home, using the ever-ready air as a vehicle, as well as a dilutant, 
to carry (inhale) and mix with Nature's finest healing and life-vitalizing products. 

We all inhale dust and germs. Healthy tissue in active and regular use rejects and 
ejects them, but unused parts and cells furnish a favorable culture field for the enterprising 
catarrh or la grippe faacillufi, which loses no time in starting a colony. Those who are 
accustomed to robust exercise out-of-doors develop sound and roomy breathing apparatus. 
To confine such persons to the house or to poorly ventilated halls, and mak& them seden- 
tary in their habits, results almost invariably in a retrograde movement, which too often 
ends in stomach troubles from lack of oxygen and exercise, colds^ catarrh, bronchitis, 
and even tuberculosis. 

Some day pneumonia may affect a portion of your lungs. It may be the only part 
capable of being used. The rest may have become atrophied by non-use. What are you 
going to do? Are you going to do just the same as thousands before you have done, die 



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for want of air? Die, perhaps, in one of the stages of congestion? Die, because of the 
active parts of the lungs being affected and the non-active, negative parts being unable to 
do their work? 

The secret of Good Health and Youth is to live each day so as to prevent the possibility 
of the beginnings of disease. DO NOT WAIT UNTIL you lose your most priceless posses- 
sion — perfect health — before attempting to give it attention. Seek to actualize the wis- 
dom of that formula, ^'an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.'' Prepare to-day 
and begin now to increase your bank account of good health and youthful spirits by be- 
coming an apt, alert student in tlie University of Nature. Don't draw on your health 
capital, when doing extra work of any sort, but instead on your bank of super-health inter- 
est, which Mother Nature generously offers. Prepare by increasing and maintaining per- 
fect health every day. 

Inhalation of the balmy balsam vapor is Nature's gift to relieve those who need help 
as a preventive against diseases of the air passages and for the purification of the blood. 

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BREATHING AND BALSAM THERAPY 

The Breathing and Balsam Therapy branch of Science and Nature is the mutual meet- 
ing ground of all Scientists, Naturalists, New Thoughters, Christian Therapeutists, Theoso- 
phists and all "Advanced Thinkers" — ^for all advocate purified air, the natural ozone 
"Breath of Life." 

CLEANLINESS IS GODLINESS. Why should the sufferer be compelled to go to 
the balsam forests to bathe in pine air in order to be relieved, when he can at last secure 
and inhale Nature's cleansing, clearing, stimulating and protecting "ozone balsam" air 
baths at home, at almost no expense and with no loss of valuable time? In other words, 
"Bring the mountain to Mahomet." The long Ust of catarrhal conditions are now readily 
curable. 

NATURE'S BALSAM AIR BATH INHALATIONS. Every step in the progress of 
the treatment of the air passages has approached nearer to Nature, till at this time you 
can claim a perfectiy natural as well as a scientific "aid to Nature" method in accordance 
with Nature's law, and at infinitely less expense than being forced to live at or near a 
"health resort up in the pines." 

SANITARIUMS situated in ozonized or balsamized fields and woods are ideal for 
those having sufficient funds, and who can keep from worrying about city du^es, 
but how few of this type! Proper diet, rest, sunshine or light and patience, are essential 
to a more rapid recovery, particularly in tuberculosis. The small sized Balsam Nebulizers 
and the Sanitarium Balsam Vaporizers (see page 37 of this volume), with a good supply 



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of the highest awarded gold medal balsam extracts, may be secured from the STEVENS 
HEALTH INVENTIONS CO. of Philadelphia and San Francisco, or through their sanitar- 
ium representatives, as low as, respectively, $5.50 and $3.30, and for larger outfits 
higher prices. Remember, the BEST is the cheapest 

These HOME SANITARIUMS.— The Stevens Nebulizer, with air pump or hand bulb, 
as well as the Stevens Balsam Pocket Vaporizer, received the Highest Award, at the Pana- 
ma-Pacific International Exposition, and (previously) at The American Institute of 
Awards and at the International Inventors* Exposition. The writer also received these 
awards for his comfortable Oil Internal Bath and Breath Controller, and at the Panama- 
International Exposition on the exhibited Electric Light Bath Cabinets. 

For further information on these inventions, or on the Stevens Electric Light and Color 
Baths or Appliances, write 

THE STEVENS LIGHT AND COLOR INSTITUTE, or 
THE STEVENS HEALTH INVENTIONS CO., 
Pacific Coast Branch, 212 Stockton Street, San Francisco, Calif. 

o 

ZONERTHERAPY 

Zonertherapy is a convenient compound term which means the healing or constructive 
and reconstructive science of vibrations in sympathy with the zones or divisions of the 
human body. The rhythm of the breath, together with exercise, are of paramount import- 
ance. Thus the author lays the greatest stress on this human requisite. 

— o 

NATURE'S PENDULUM 

It is as natural to stretch as to relax, to impress as to express, to "reach out" as to 
"let go," to stimulate as to depress, for thus the rhythm of life keeps us alive, and fresh, 
and strong and young. 

o 

Sunshine makes songsters and singers and smiles. These and the other sweet fruits 
are produced by a sunny, clear atmosphere. 

o 

"There is no knowledge greater than music." — An Ancient East Indian Axiom. 

o 

Are you alive to the marvelous possibilities awaiting YOUR command? 



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and Colors, Their Uses," now in preparation. 

Throughout the civilized world, physicists, naturalists and healers are becoming 
awakened to the tremendous potentialities for curing irregularities of the mental and physi^ 
cal bodies and for building new cells of youth and energy by the application of higher 
rates and higher octaves of vibrations. We are surely on the eve of startling and revolu- 
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INDEX OF NAMES 
Page 

7 

_ 15 

..^ 15 

My Penna. University Instructors 15 

Pai^ne Jacabson . — 15 

Prof. MiUiken — 15 

Lucretius „™. .. 18 

Prof. J. J. Thomas _ 20 



QUOTED, ETC 



Emily and Edith. 

Fred Emerson Brooks. 
Henry Frank 



Clifton Harby Levy 

Prof. Cleaves 

Dr. Harold Pahner. 

Masters, Saviors, Prophets 

Judge Mahoney 

Harry Gaze „ _ 

Oriental names „ 

Mme. Courlandon 

Profs. Lick, Wilson & Lowe. 



„^23 

_„„ 27 

28 

_ 32 

33 

_ _.33-34 

35 

„ 36 

Buddha, Krishna and Jesusi Christ 38 

Wordsworth _ „ „... 38 

Dr. Edwin F. Bowers _ 43 

Dr. Geo. Starr White 44 

R. G. Ingersoll „..„ 46 and 83 

Dr. Wm. Poole . 15 and 48 

Dr. EUa R. BeU _ 15 and 49 

Dr. J. W. Starkey 15 and 49 

Prof. Herman Boeker 49 

Nellie B. Cooper, M. Cp. 49 

Encyclopedia 52 

Helen Keller 53 

Funk and Wagner 53 

Dr. Edwin D. Babbit 57-57-59 

Dr. Pancoast. 57-58 

F. F. Burdick 64 and 77 

Dr. A. J. Ochsner, L.L.D., FJiX.S. 64 
Dr. Julia Seaton 67 



Page 

- 68 
^ 68 

68 

- 75 
^ 75 
^ 77 



W. J. ColviUe...„_ 

Prof. Swedenborg.....>_, 

Dr. James Rodes Buchanan. 

Professor Crookes 

«Odic Light Friend" 

Prof. Holilngshead _ 

Gudrun Friis Holm, M. D., D. 0 78 

Dr. Howard G. Ellis 78 

Prof. Einstein. 79 

Prof. Newton 79 and 80 

Euclid „.„ „._ 79 

Astronomers ^ „_ „.„ 80 

Fabre and Plato „ „.„ 81 

Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes „ 81 

J. F. Lynas _„ _ 84 

Adam and Eve „ _ 85 

Shakespeare, Pope „„ 86 

"Pres. Moore, Theodore Hardee 87 

Luther Burbank 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95 

Edison 92 

Dr. J. H. Kellogg 92 

Paul Von Boeckman 92 

"Edith'' (Mrs. Geo. Elder) 95 

Pythagorus 96 

Battle Creek Sanitarium „ 98 

Mahomet „ 102 

East Indian Axiom 103 

Dr. Thrasher and other authors of books 
supplied by the Stevens Publishing 
Co „ 104 

[ Prof. John Milton Scott 115 

•< Dr. James L. Gordon 115 

( Whose co-operative thoughtfulness 

inspired them to review in part or 

toto this book. 



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MARVELOUS ODIC AND AURIC LIGHT EXPERIENCES 

The author, who has thoroughly enjoyed many marvelous and intensely interesting 
seasons of Odic Light and Color experiments, will continue to experiment and take data 
along the Odyllic lines of investigation and research, and will secure valuable information 
from others! who have cultivated the inner and higher sense of Sight, as, for example, the 
following statement written by our mystic friend, F. J. Darrah, for the first time and especi- 
ally for this book: 

Los Angeles, CaL, Oct. 10, 1921. 

My Dear Doctor Stevens: — 

I thank you for the privilege, so courteously vouchsafed unto me, of scanning 
in advance the proof sheets of your informative book on "Vibrations, Lights and Colors." 
I return same to you herewith and extend to you my sincere congratulations upon your suc- 
cessful accomplishment of a well-nigh perfect work along its own distinctively peculiar 
lines. 

The varied phenomena of Light and Color, in correlation with Sound and Number, 
have for many years compelled my profound interest; and the concentrated focus of that 
interest lies (strange to say) within the domain of the Odic, the Odyllic, the Auric and the 
Magnetic Light. Choose from among these terms the one that suits you best; for in the 
last resort they are synonyms, referring in this connection to that specific effluence or 
emanation flowing from any form of whatsoever land in which the constructive power, the 
cohesive principle of Creative Potency is actively in operation. One of the crudest and 
most easily observable manifestation of the Odyllic Light is to be found in the dim radiance 
emitted by a horseshoe magnet There are many persons who can, under the proper con- 
dition, clearly see that light with the unaided physical eye, as witnessed by the testimony of 
Mesmer, Baron Von Reichenback, Prof. Sir Wm. Crookes, Prof. Babbitt aiid others. 

But an ability to perceive the same kind of light as is seen from growing vegetable 
forms, from animals, from human beings and even from, at least some, so called inanimate 
objects appears to be possessed by very few persons indeed. 

I speak now of unaided PHYSICAL and not CLAIRVOYANT vision. Some twenty 
odd years ago I quite accidentally became aware of possessing that (so to speak) EXTEN- 
SION of the visual sense myself, and from the date of that unsought revelation down to 
the present day I have been and now am able to consciously utilize the gift, if such it be, 
but only at certain times and under definitely specific circumstances. These conditions 
are, however, not exacting or hard to comply with; all that is required is that the object 
under observation, for instance a tree, be visible clearly and distinctly outlined against a 



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cloudless sky at that moment when the evening afterglow begins to merge into twilight. 
Viewed under such conditions I see the tree enveloped in flame — a spiral cone of efflour- 
escent light, the diameter of its circular base extending a trifle bey or d the furthest reach 
of the tree's roots and symmetrically tapering thence to a point slightly above the upper- 
most tuft of foliage. A rhythmic, ascensive spiral movement pervades the entire body of 
the cone of light, and instead of a supposedly inanimate tree I behold "a. winged spirit in- 
stinct with Life." 

An inspiring, wondrously beautiful sight is this, well worthy of more detailed descrip- 
tion. But I forbear in order that I may briefly touch upon another and far more interesting 
phase of Odyllic manifestation, to the perception of which there is required the exercise of 
trained clairvoyant faculties. You wiU kindly pardon me for again drawing upon my own . 
personal experience. Careful, painstaking research has convinced me that, as before 
stated, every object in the visible world emits an Odic light A long series of experimenta- 
tion in these matters has likewise fully persuaded me that each species of mineral, vege- 
able, animal and human life has its own distinctive color of the one same primordial Odic 
(or Magnetic) Efflourescense (or Light). It further appears that the marked differentia- 
tion and divergence of structural form,' as also of essential quality and inherent essence 
is primarily and fundamertally due to a synchronous adjustment of the respective rates 
of vibration of NUMBER and of SOUND and that color is the index to or key of such 
adjusted two-fo!d vibratory ratio. I verily believe that Number, Sound and Color, operat- 
ing in unison in and through the "Aether," constitute the Triadic Potency that will eventual- 
ly, when fully understood, rule absolutely the powers and principalities of Air and harness 
them for the use of an enlightened humanity; but I frankly confess that I can at present 
adduce no proof or avouch no demonstration of the faith that is in me. 

I submit for your consideration the foregoing facts of my own experience, offering 
them to you as corroboratory evidence of the soundness of your own deductions and 
conclusions — evidence valuable perhaps for having resulted from a line of investigation 
somewhat different from your own researches. 

Fraternally yours for increased knowhdge, 

A. J. DARRAH. 

0 

Colors generated from one's inner self produces an odic-radio acHvity, which is mani- 
fested as the human aura. 

o 

APPRECIATION 

The author has received invitaliozs from several distinguished authors, editors and 



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lectarersy offering to publicly re\riew this book of Essays^ Lessons, Health Hints and Flash- 
fights, among whom the reader may recognize John Milton Scott, the author, poet and 
Clitic; Ira Judson Foster, A. IV!», D. Sc., writer and editor; James L. Gordon, D. D., 
writer, scholar and lecturer of national fame, pastor of the First Congregational Church 
of San Francisco. 

o 

Man is closer to the vibrations of light of intelligence than any other earthly crea- 
tion, and is therefore made like (likeness of) the Creator. 

o 

Music is the universal religion as well as the '^universal language.^' 

o 

BIRTH AND DEATH OF LIVING CELLS 

The birth and death of living cells were shown in a meeting of the American Philo- 
sophical Society, The pictures were exhibited by Dr. Alexis J Carrel in connection with 
a talk on the famous ^^chicken hearted,'' cells of which have been kept alive for nine 
years. The pictures shown on the screen by Dr. Carrel and his associates Allessandro 
Fabbri and Dr. A. H. Eberlin, proved the famous ^^heart'' to be cell proliferation from 

a small fragment removed in 1912, from the heart of a chicken embryo Mr. Fabbri 

explained that every forty-eight hours the cell mass is removed from the growing med- 
ium, and the new cells cut away from the old ones. The present ''heart" is the 1500th 
generation. The reels showing the birth and death of the cells were, startingly beauti- 
ful and thrillingly scientific; in the former, masses break away into flickerng lines and 
finally form into living cells, while in the latter the operation is reversed, the dying cells 
are cast off and disintegrated — Journal of American Pharmaceutical Association. 

o 

X-RAYS DISCOVERIES BY HARVARD SCIENTISTS 

X-rays discoveries by Harvard Scientists of how to increase the penetrating power 
of X-rays to increase the curative properties of X-rays to a point where they may be used 
with the same result as those given by the radiations of the immensely more costly radi- 
um, assuming that the claims are warranted, the Harvard investigators have made a rel- 
atively inexpensive source equal in therapeutic value to one fabulously expensive. 

It is well known now that radium and similar chemical bodies give off three differ- 
ent streams of radiation, respectively known as the alpha, beta and gamma ray, is like 



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the X-ray in all respects except that it is much more penetrating. Since most of these 
rays are of very short range, losing much of their force in an inch or two and since it 
is obvious that whatever value they have in treating the deep-seatad human ailments, 
such as ceincer, must be directly related to their penetrating power, radium has had the 
preference over the X-ray for medical purposes by virtue of the greater penetration of 
it's gamma ray. 

The Harvard ^ientists have increased the penetrating power of the X-ray, by raising 
the voltage of the current passed through the tubs. In general terms, it may be supposed 
that this heightening of the potential shoots the X-rays out at greater velocity. 

o 

THEORIES UPSET 

In connection with the visit to the United States of Mme. Marie Sklodowska Currie, 
the National Geographic Society has issued the following bu!letin concerning the discovery 
of radium, ''the great puzzle of the twentieth century," based on a communication from 
Dr. Alexander Bell: 

^'Radium has recently upset our most cherished theories of matter and force," writes 
Dr. Bell. 'The whole subject of chemistry has to be rewritten and our ideas of the consti- 
tution of matter entirely changed. Here is a substance which emits light and heat and 
electricity continuously without any apparent source of supply. It emits light in the dark, 
and in a cool room maintains^ itself constantly at a higher temperature than its environr 
ment. 

It emits the Roentgen rays without any electrical machinery to produce them, and we 
have now discovered emanating from that substance several differen'j kinds of rays of the 
unknown or X-ray variety; and we now recognize the Alpha, Beta and Gamma rays as 
more penetrating. , 

o 

RAINBOW COLORS 

Rainbows are caused by refraction, or bending, of the sun's rays by the falling 
rain. The color of sunlight ia a balanced mixture of all the colors of the spectrum. When 
the rays strike the raindrops they are hent at different angles, and as different colors have 
different degrees of refraction, we see them in their order. 



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